di1630
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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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Anyone hear they are thinking of raising airline retirement age to 67/68?
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So his office is not an approval step, just coordination?
Correct…but because people are afraid of him they will not push it further because he “non-concurred” -
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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“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.
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19AF/cc by chance? Wouldn’t surprise me if so.
Nope, problem is on the reserve side. -
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.
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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. -
Im trying to join the reserves after 21 years…not trying to get retired pay (was already denied)just take an open TR spot. Anyone know if I can separate from AD post 20 vs have to retire?
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Garmin Fenix 5…., super functional, allowed in the vault love it.
My breitling/bremont/citizen/astrozavia pilot watches all get rotated occasionally for show only. -
Who has the details on this guy: AF pilot turned airline guy who’s a sexual predator.
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35K, 3-5-9 yr contract options. Should be out next week.
Unsure on AFSC specifics or details.
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I thought the new Batman was about an hour too long and a 5/10 or C overall. Pattinson did ok I thought. Not bad, just “meh” imo
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Anyone in the airlines think these high fuel prices are going to hurt hiring?
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Highly doubtful
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For any airline person on here: how long til you felt comfortable with your new job? From flying to scheduling etc
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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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Has anyone watched “downfall” on Netflix about the 737 max?
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Why?
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Alright, I'm tracking. So if you have 30 days to sell and retire on 1 Mar (for instance), you're saying you'll collect your base pay ($9,000) and get your retirement pay ($4,500) collecting $13,500 in total? for example? At the end of your second month (30 Apr) retired you'd have collected $18,000. Ok I'm tracking this gameplan now. I wasn't before.
By my math, if you take the leave (starting 1 Mar), you'll go on terminal, collect $9,000 + ~$1,500 (BAH) + ~$300 (BAS) + $1,000 (Flight pay) = $11,800 and then one month later you'd get that first retirement check (~ $4,500) and come out at around $16,300 so you're short about $1,700 - given a hypothetical (lowish) BAH rate.
That said, something everyone who is approaching retirement should be familiar with is exactly how retired pay is calculated. If you stay active that extra month, you're not only bumping one of your lowest months of pay off the bottom and replacing it with one at your highest pay, you are also getting a multiplier bonus - which I don't think everyone is necessarily aware of. So when you retire with exactly 20 years of service your multiplier is .5000. When you retire with 20 years and 1 month, your multiplier is .5 + 2.5 * ( 1 month / 1200) = .5021. With 20 years and 2 months, it's .5042. I think most people think you need to trip another full year of service to collect another 2.5%.
With this in mind, if you're a Lt Col at 17 years in Jan of 2020, your retired pay would wind up as $4,732.13. If you retire with 20 + 1 mo, it becomes $4,766.99 (+$34.85); with 20 + 2 it becomes $4,801.97 (+$69.83).
Eventually, in about 4 years, you make that original $1,700 back and then have more retired pay forever. Choose your adventure.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/1401
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/1409
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That distinction doesn't make a difference, though. You can't get base pay + retirement pay because you can't get retirement pay until you're retired...
If you separate (not getting a pension) you can start your job, so New Job + Mil Job > New Job + Mil Job - BAS - BAH.
I guess if you need a fist full of dollars now it makes sense, but that's the only condition where it could make a difference. The end sum would always be greater if you stay on AD longer and collect everything you're entitled to.
If you sell back a month of leave you get base pay for that.
If you retire, you can sell back that month for base pay amount plus you’ll get retirement.
For me, the $4500 retirement pay out earns my BAH/BAS/Flight pay
So retiring = sell back is usually worth more money.
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I fail to see how this is ever the case. If my calculations are correct, you ALWAYS make more money by taking it as terminal leave and collecting BAS + BAH + Base Pay > Base Pay. Am I missing some detail?
Base pay + retirement pay beats base pay + bah/bas/flight pay.
If you aren’t going to get a pension…you are correct.
I need my DD214 as quick as possible so selling it makes sense for time and money,
Timeframe for T-1 retirement
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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?