Originally Posted by
Mason32
Definately stay in the law enforcement job. If you think back to your first few years on the job when everything was exciting and new and you loved your job, that is how you will feel again when you take the airline job. Then when the reality of trading your 70k a year police job for a 30k a year FO job hits, you will like flying less. After your first year of reduced rests, lousy schedules and being away from friends and family for days on end, you will like your new job even less. The airlines take ALL (well almost all) the fun out of flying and it becomes little more than a job.... much like your at now at the PD.
My advice; stay at the PD, keep the seniority you have in this unstable economic times, enjoy a good Govt job with full benefits and retirement, and fly for fun on the side instead of working that extra detail or overtime.
LOL. Please show me a $70K a year police job.I quit the police dept in 2007 to pursue aviation. I went tto CFI school full time. I amnot a cop anymore but thinking of going back into it.
The cut off age for Federal Law enforcement is 37.
To be a police pilot they want you to be a street cop for certain number of years and then that is stil no guarantee you wil get in. People get to the aviation unit and stay there til the retire or die. Its hard to get into a LE aviation unit.
But Ido like the idea of going back into it until something better comes up.
Why does everyone on here say fly for fun and forget LE? Thats very interesting cause I am ata another website called officer.com and everyone there says get out of LE. lol
So basically what I have deduced is people just arent satisfied with thier current situation. I want to fly for a living. Not neccessarily the airlines although it would be nice.