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    The new airline thread

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    When someone drops mil leave say 6 months into their airline career then joins the airline 2 years later…are they still on first year pay or do they move up the scale with seniority?

    I know guys who drop mil leave after 1 week and I’m curious how that goes.

    Retire then Hire Program

    in General Discussion

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    Heads up to all thinking of retiring and joining the reserves: the current 10 AF CC 2-star is throwing a wrench in plans. No reason given, but as of now the packages are being stopped from even reaching the approval authority because the 2-star in non-concurring (again no reason given).

    One guy was hired so after 20+ yrs his last flight was a full up checkride and he didn’t do a retirement ceremony because he’d save it for his last reserve flight….now he’s being told no by the 2-star, no reason given to the hiring unit leadership.

    So TR soots are going unfilled l, USAF mussing out on cheap experienced labor.

    Another great example of our management in action,

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    Latest Movies

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    About 30 min into top gun I thought it was going to end up overhyped but damn, the end was awesome. Great flying scenes throughout. My wife, 9yr old daughter and 12yr old son all really liked it.

    Def see it in theater preferably a imax or Dolby.

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    Timeframe for T-1 retirement

    in General Discussion

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    Been flying for 20 years and one thing I’ve learned is there’s no substitute for actual stick time in the plane. That becomes even more apparent when someone leaves the cockpit and then comes back, dudes with more time pick it back up faster. 
     
    Sims help but they aren’t a replacement.

    I agree in some cases Air under your ass is needed. I can’t teach BFM or air refueling in a sim. I can teach better tactics in many cases.

    I’ve never flown a heavy/crew aircraft but if the airlines can train someone to fly a 767 in a sim…why can’t we make a KC-46 pilot in the sim?

    Timeframe for T-1 retirement

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    The system we have has worked for decades, and has produced far and away the best pilots in the world. Willfully giving it up like this is a disgrace. 

    I disagree, we need to modernize training and sims are a great way to do it.

    I’d rather do many FTU scenarios in a sim than airspace.

    And yes, I survived the great “how can they fly a jet if we don’t make them do fix to fixes” and “no formation landings? We are all gonna be speaking mandarin”
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    Retirement / Separation Considerations

    in General Discussion

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    You can go ahead and share his name, douche canoes deserve to be outed, especially in the ARC.    

    The esteemed person who is respectfully against retaining current qualified 11Fs during a retention crisis is Maj Gen Radliff, the 10th AF commander.

    I do not know the official reasoning why he is willing to drive out 20+ year experienced pilots who are volunteering to work for almost free and fill available TR spots.

    I’m sure like everything big blue does, there is a good reason.

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    Retirement / Separation Considerations

    in General Discussion

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    “Retired reserve” are the key words you need to research. There are caveats to unit manning and other stuff. I can, and has, been done …. But I don’t think it’s blanket approval  

    Oh it’s been researched. Literally hired under the program then as the package was being routed, a 2 star that doesn’t think retirees should be hired has staff stop the packages before they ever got to the approval authority.

    One guy hired was so sure it’d happen that he didn’t even have a retirement ceremony or fini flight.

    And today I just heard how bad my base/airframe are hurting for IPs.

    UFB
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    Retirement / Separation Considerations

    in General Discussion

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    I can't think of any situation where being retirement eligible and not doing it makes any sense.  You can retire and still fly guard/reserve as mentioned above.  

    I was hired as a TR into a “retired reservist” position by a unit but a 2-star general who doesn’t believe the unit should be hiring retirement eligible pilots killed the package.

    So my choices are if I want to fly military to stay AD or figure out a work around.

    Retirement / Separation Considerations

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I'm confused. You got denied retirement?
    But I know a guy who's working Palace Chase to the guard after 21 years AD (signed bonus to something past that).  I also know a guy who straight up retired from AD, then got some waivers signed to join the reserve, then more waivers to return to flight status.  When on orders, his pension got pro-rated (reduced) for that time.  But that was years ago.
    So yeah, should be possible I would think.  I'm not in a position to definitively tell you, but maybe that's encouragement to keep digging.

    No, I can retire but I’d rather fly part time as I dig my airframe/job/base….just don’t want to do AD.

    The new airline thread

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    In this hiring climate, don't waste your time, money and/or energy. Those things are the biggest shlong swinging contests you'll ever attend (and yes, even the WIA...). Just submit your apps and update them bi-weekly.

    This^^

    Near Zero effort for qual’d military to get picked up right now.

    I had no interview prep, no digital logbook, no resume check, no internal airline recs, 1x letter of rec from my buddy who isn’t an airline pilot and still got called 7 mos from availability date.
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