Originally Posted by
ITSALLGOOD
Otto, Just to confuse you even more, I will respectfully disagree with Archie. In my reserve unit, only 2 of the 12 airline guys moved to their airline domicile...the rest stayed local. The 2 who moved only did so to work in the training dept or become an ACP. They are only able to drill for one week each month (and have to take MIL leave at the airline to do it = less pay) and are constantly going out of currency with the unit. Guys who live local can can come in with just 24 hours notice to pick up a quick 200+ bucks when it suits them. My point is archie's blanket statement that it is better to move away from your reserve gig to live in domicile does not apply to all...in fact, what I have seen is overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Otto,
I guess you're going to have to decide which gig is more important to you....reserve military, or Delta Air Lines. Are you really going to be consistently drilling more than a week out of a month? This will probably get the attention of your Chief Pilot. While the ability to pick up an extra $200 on short notice sounds great now, I believe that it is incredibly short sighted thinking. Soon enough, you'll be making enough at Delta so that you'll be losing money by dropping trips, to fly with the reserves.
Go ahead and take this guy's advise, and commute to reserve....see how you and your family like it. My guess is that you won't.