HossHarris

-Culinary school. Learn how to feed yourself. -Take a year or 4 off and be a full time student. Get another useless bachelors degree. Maybe major in sailing ... or scuba diving .... or psychedelics.

The other thing to plan for money wise is there will be a lot more fingers in your pie (sts). You may be able to get your gross pay back to “normal” on year 2, but a lot more come out of it. Union dues (2%), health insurance ($600/mo if you don’t have tricare), out of pocket health care costs (significant), vision, dental, life insurance, retirement contributions (your choice, but should be significant). No BAS, BAH. I have tricare (retired) and still only pocket about 60% of my gross airline paycheck.

New guy flying will be similar at both .... narrowbody domestic multiple legs a day. At southwest, that will never change. If you’re fired up about widebody international, go interview with United. FedEx is a different animal, but worth consideration .... especially if you’re not a fan of the general public. Everyone is hiring .... it’s a good problem to have

2 weeks off paid at delta the first few years. While on vacation, you can’t work...even if you wanted to As previously mentioned, off days are off days. The big big blue retirement check allows me to bid 3x 4-day trips a month when I choose to bid a line. That gives me weekends off all month, and a full 10 day stretch off somewhere in the month so I can actually get some shit done (or fish) I chose reserve over over this winter based on the manning tea leaves. So I still get 14 or so hard days off every month. Days that I’m on I just have to be able to get to Atlanta in 12 hours .... so pretty flexible. But since 1 Oct I’ve only had to “work” 6 days. 2 days of CQ and 4 days of short call (be within about 2 hours of Atlanta). The short calls were unused .... so after a 7 hr sit in/around Atlanta I went Home. So yes ... there’s absurd amounts of “time off” ... you’ll be able to have these cool things you’ve only heard about on AD called hobbies. They’re neat!

Delta does as well....in some cases. There are ways around it. If you want to maximize your pay, especially early on, you will be working* a lot. *-on the road. None of it is really work.

Yes

If the bad guys don’t know you’re there .... or can’t do anything about it if they do know ... you can linger as long as you like, or as long as fuel allows for an air breathing asset.

Amex platinum only gets you gold.

I always Used it for plane tickets via dts....because i couldn’t figure a good way around it. Everything else was personal card. Then moved the split disbursement on the voucher side to only pay Gtc balance and everything else went to my account. 20 yrs, 3 days, zero issues.

Make buffs great again and solve the dilemma

I hear blimp folding is lucrative ... but seasonal

If you haven’t already, find the first officer up the finance chain on your base. Stop arguing with airmen and NCOs.

Still trying to figure out how they’re all “indeterminate” tdys and not pcs-es

You can be the best of what’s left!

TL:DR but important note from 3)..... the website is handgunlaw.US

Handgunlaw.us is useful as well

On base is wing/cc dependent. It’s getting better, but is not good. State depends on the state you’re physically in and your state of residence. Not much info ... but you have bigger fish to fry in the short term.

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That’s how I did It. 20 years and 3 days. 100% flying.

(Yup ... and I wasn’t really replying to you) its a fighter, if you need burner you plug it in and use it. No idea what the plan was for that video, or if it was a mil or AB takeoff. AB takeoffs use a LOT of gas ...

And I should clarify. Im not trying to be a raptor apologist. Im trying to provide a little context for the folks that think rotating 20 knots off speed is absurd or poor Piloting or gross negligence It’s not. It’s a radio call ... it’s cross checking something inside the cockpit for a glance ... it’s seeing movement in your peripheral vision and glancing over to see if it’s a bird or another aircraft .... it’s less than a second. The dude fucked up. He had the wrong told. He had bad techniques. It’s a community issue. Criticise that. He didn’t have a crew of 3 or 4 people up front, with at least 2 of them doing nothing else but staring at the airspeed indicator nor the luxury of time. That’s the crux of my issue

Unknown. And I don’t know off the top of my cranium if the mishap was AB or mil power takeoff. But it doesn’t matter. The point is it happens fast. Having flown both now, I will say that flying fighters and flying heavies are wildly different. Completely. Fundamentally. Cultures, mores, techniques, assumptions, and standards don’t easily transfer from one to another.

Here you go, expert. Closest thing I could find. Looks like a non-Airshow, non-ab, everyday normal raptor takeoff. 8 seconds from brake release to nosewheel lift off. If you, a perfectly capable aviator evidently, made a 1 second error ... how many knots do you think that would be? Best case, light jet and linear acceleration, a 1 second error is 15 knots. Takeoff acceleration isn’t linear. So tell me again about the magnitude of the fuckup....

Come fly a raptor and lemme know. Fuck, I was a block 50 F-16 guy and raptor takeoffs in the sim felt fast paced