Elvis, beware of the shrink. Just remember your SERE training and you should be fine!

 

Fewer and fewer pilots are entering and leaving the military. Last I heard over 40% of usaf academy grads are flying UAVs.

 

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Congratulations. Keep us informed.

About half way through he stopped learning and started teaching the plane to the instructors. So his was half as long as anyone else.

 

FTB, I'm in the ATL tonight for 606 in the AM. You buying me dinner at the shizzle?

 

...should look at FDX next year with those hours and resume.

 

Convrats Elvis! Graceland is waiting here in Memphis when you get done with training . We'll have the the pink caddy fueled and ready in the employee lot

 

This, and the overall level of compensation is crap.

Back in 2000, you could walk out of your military gig, into a job that paid six figures in 3 years working less than half the month. With a fully paid pension and health care. You'd be nuts to walk away from that.

But the thing that the military brings to applicants that most civil guys don't have (and I AM a civil guy, this is props to my Mil bros) is that by the time they retire/separate from the military, they are pretty much qualified "middle managment", and can step in to almost any role needing that kind of person, whether it's an airline, power plant or even a carpet factory (assuming there are any left in the US).

With a little elbow grease, they can be making as much, if not more, than the current compensation the airlines provide without ANY of the uncertainty, without any of that yukky labor/union stuff and can be "their own man" with a completely portable skill set that you can use to ratchet up your compensation regardless if your company succeeds or goes bankrupt.

So the real question is "why would ANYONE in the military even bother with the airlines?".

Nu

 

Looking at training Sept 6th or so, likely in the MD-88 or A320. Junior bases are MSP, DTW & NYC.

Met with the psychologist yesterday, no surprises, went quick.

 

Congrats from another retired USAF dude. There are several of us on here with your background, come visit the latest and greatest thread and say hi there too.