Originally Posted by
PerfInit
With this economy, I can't imagine any of those senior pilots wanting to retire. My guess is, many will stay several more years.
That's very ture! After 60 and still on the job a bad landing can maybe make a guy call it a day.
Right now I'm in ACY and start school on the BE-300 in DEC. Since the pay is public I start out as a GS-11(58K). After checkride GS-12(69K). After IOE which can take anywhere from 6mo to a year is GS-13(83K). When a PIC slot opens up you go to a GS-14(96K).
Flying at this job is really secondary the highest time pilot last year had about 600hrs and he really worked his butt off for it.
Avg flight time in a month is about 30hrs.