Originally Posted by
HSLD
Good points guys, I made a quick chart/calculator to illustrate the huge negative impact that time away from base vs. pay has for an airline pilot.
The chart compares the pay for a typical 9-5 wage earner working a 40 hour work week with a pilot getting paid 75 hour of flight time for the month BUT in the service of the company for much much more.
This chart is dynamic so you can play around with the values by dragging the sliders. If someone wants to author an introduction and explanation for this chart and/or suggest additions or enhancements I'd be happy to make it a regular part of the site.
http://airlinepilotcentral.com/resou...061025145.html
Good tool, but you ought to put a large note on there explaining that the typical pilot works something like 2+ hours for every credit hour and is away 3-4 hours per credit hour...
Otherwise a newbie might just set both sliders to the same value...
