Promote or Retire?
01-21-2018 | 06:43 AM
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From: Gear slinger
When Delta is hiring 4-5 year regional FOs with 2500SIC time and no TPIC (and they have recently) it opens up possibilities.
Best guess is 3-5 years for helo folks who make the transition with very little fixed wing time.
01-21-2018 | 01:52 PM
#12
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From: Baja Vermont
Hacker15e,
I don’t doubt that in ‘99 a report would show exactly that. I had some new hire UAL pilots in my squadron passing around the new contract (‘99 or ‘00?); I couldn’t believe it and said, “it’s 50/50 you give much of that. A ton of guys also went to USAirways then, too. It’s not that the predictions are disingenuous or wrong; it’s they don’t account for the inherent volatility in aviation. Ten years of furlough can change the lifetime earnings greatly.
As an aside, a tanker guy showed me a spreadsheet showing leaving at 17 years an becoming an ART was better than staying to 20.
GF
I don’t doubt that in ‘99 a report would show exactly that. I had some new hire UAL pilots in my squadron passing around the new contract (‘99 or ‘00?); I couldn’t believe it and said, “it’s 50/50 you give much of that. A ton of guys also went to USAirways then, too. It’s not that the predictions are disingenuous or wrong; it’s they don’t account for the inherent volatility in aviation. Ten years of furlough can change the lifetime earnings greatly.
As an aside, a tanker guy showed me a spreadsheet showing leaving at 17 years an becoming an ART was better than staying to 20.
GF
01-21-2018 | 09:05 PM
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
01-22-2018 | 03:49 AM
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And, yes, I know quite a few mil who didn't get hired. Everyone thinks it's some automatic thing that prior-military gets automatically hired by some Major. Not the case.
01-22-2018 | 05:50 PM
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From: Swimming, or drowning, depends on the day.
Exactly. I am retiring in May and am looking forward to joining the check of the month club. I will say the last couple of years have seemed like an eternity but now that I am here it's a good feeling, some sort of security.
01-23-2018 | 06:00 AM
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Also, best wishes toward 50% or more on disability rating!
01-23-2018 | 06:43 AM
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
Careful. Many or most common VA disabilities are compatible with FAA medical standards, but if you get a VA rating for something which is not, you won't be able to take it back, unless you can actually treat and resolve the problem.
01-23-2018 | 07:59 AM
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Yeah. There are plenty of ways to hit 50% without Sleep Apnea, though.
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