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I’ll check when I go back to work and see if I still have it. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Reach out to your commander. ANG sent out an interest email a couple months ago seeking volunteers for UPT. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I just read an article stating she had 450 total flight hours. For you helo guys and gals is that in line with what a PIC has? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

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You can’t really be on your phone otherwise it yells at you and eventually kicks you off. I typically just sit my seat back to a comfortable position and have my hands in my lap but close to the wheel if I need to take over. Honestly though, it’s so good on the highways that I haven’t needed to. Sometimes it can mess up around town, especially with road closures, cones, etc. but I really only use it on my interstate drive to the airport. I get there rested and not mentally fatigued. The seats are super comfortable compared to the Mazda CX-5 I was driving and the ventilated seats are awesome. I would say the biggest questions are: can you make it round trip without charging or will you have access to a charger in the employee lot or wherever you decide to park, or are you okay with super charging a little bit to get home. It’s not for everyone but most of the airline guys at my guard base are using them as their commuters and they all love them too. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Here’s my perspective. Airline pilot and commute to my base which is about 3ish hours away. I picked up a Tesla Model 3 RWD for the range. I can get up there with about 30% left. I am able to plug in at the employee lot and by the time I’m back from a 3-4 day trip it is good enough to get home. For me the autopilot and Full Self Driving has been a game changer. I fly PMs so I can commute up and back without losing a day or spending money on a hotel. I get to work not mentally fatigued from driving 3 hours. It’s not for everyone, but I like the car. I couldn’t care less about if it’s good for the environment or if it isn’t. It just seemed practical to me. I am interested in how well it will do sitting out in the cold if and when it gets really cold in the employee lot. If it looks bad I may just bite the bullet and park it at one of the local airport parking places that will park it inside and charge it. According to my app, I’m saving somewhere around $300 a month on gas, so dropping $50 a couple times a year isn’t the end of the world. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Wow. Everything old is new again. “Universally assignable” or whatever they were calling it 15 years ago is back again! Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

My class got hit with this same crap back in the day. 2 fighters out of 22 T-38 assignables. Fast forward and all the heavy and AFSOC guys are at an airline and only the two fighter dudes are left on AD. That first kick in the nuts woke a lot of us up on how important we were to the AF. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

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That’s chump change at SWA. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I’m currently on mil leave finishing up my retirement but looking at the January Bid lines out of Orlando they varied from 60-80 hours, some of them with 18 days off for the month. Since I’ve been gone for a couple years, I’m not sure what the high time flyers are getting, so I’ll leave that question for an active guy. Before I left though, the sky was the limit and as long as it was legal and you could put it on your board, you could bank $$$. Personally, life is great. I ended up having to take my ex back to court and won full custody of the kids (hence the reason I am putting the airline life on hold temporarily and finishing up the mil career). We are all extremely happy. I did end up getting remarried and she has been amazing and my kids all call her “mom”. My older two have pretty much nothing to do with their birth mom, and my youngest is the only one that goes for any sort of visitation. It’s funny what a little bit of wisdom, maturity and life experience will do for the second time around. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

SWA: Seems like a pretty big win on most fronts. The pay is higher than it seems due to the TFP to hours conversion being a completely made up metric. But with guarantee being a lot higher than the other airlines, I just don’t see how anyone could complain about the pay. The new “stackable” overrides will absolutely punish the company if they don’t do a good job running an efficient and effective airline and make the FOs and Capts an absolute metric $#!+ ton of money. The union didn’t even want to secretly cost analysis the ask because they knew if it somehow leaked out, the sticker shock would cause SWA to immediately balk. From what it looks like to me, we got everything we asked for but as always there are people who won’t be happy. I had been on the fence to jump to Delta, and glad I didn’t. With no PBS, the best work rules in the industry, highest guarantee, being able to pickup, drop and move my schedule pretty freely and more scheduled days off than anyone else, it fits for me and my family’s lifestyle. I’ve done enough international flying in the military, doing it for another 25 years doesn’t move the needle for me. I may jump on the ETOPS train out in Las Vegas after the kids graduate just to see how I like that schedule, but overall, I am extremely happy. For the first time in my SWA career, I would actually recommend coming here. Just my 2 cents. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Life hack. Get hired by a unit that has a Title 10 Contingency Mission that is USERRA Exempt. Get a line number ASAP, then do USERRA Exempt orders until within 5 of retirement. Hop on AGR order, retire w/20 active years and then go to your airline with ~15 years seniority. But honestly if you do the math, it probably still works out better to go to the airlines and just fly with them and min turn the Guard/Reserves. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

General Chang outed himself on purpose a couple years ago. Now it’s more satire than troll, but I still appreciate the commentary. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Is this just Reserve or Guard as well? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app