ARIs 'R' Us

I keep a small 4 person raft in my GA aircraft for reasons like this. Engine fails? Just jump out, hop on the raft and fall slowly to safety. (Note: only works in the Himalayas)

All I know is if I wanted to spend $70K on an armored, electrified, smoke and camera equipped car, it would not be a shitty Eclipse. http://www.veteransagainstpoliceabuse.org/ArmoredCarRaffle.aspx

Dover doesn't have sales tax, but they tax the crap out of their beer. Also, you can only buy beer at liquor stores. In CA, you can buy it in grocery stores. BL: better beer at Travis

Yeah you can def make it work, my point was that houses, gas, recreation and just about everything else is more expensive in Travis (sometimes much more). BUT: California is beautiful and Delaware is not. If you have the choice, I can't think of enough pros for Dover unless there's family, your a Philly fan, or something like that. If you're a big beach guy, the one at Dover is more accessible and better for laying out/swimming than those in NorCal. The ones in Cali are better looking and have bigger waves and bigger sharks. If you like the outdoors (hiking, boating, etc), it's not even close. Besides, if you really want, you can probably go to Dover in 4 years.

O-3+? Go to Travis. O-2-? Travis is really f-ing expensive. The house we bought was over $400K, a similar one on Dover would have been about $280K. Other than cost of living, there is absolutely nothing that makes Dover a better place to me, other than close proximity to a few awesome cities.

That sounds terrible, and terribly expensive. Enjoy your type rating, though!

You don't have to memorize the boldface before you walk in the door...you only have to know it before day 1. Takes about 2 hours and a few beers in night 1 to learn.

That's not what he said. He said we cut 2% of the bottom 10% because the other 8% came from VSPrs. I'm not good at math though so I may be wrong... We all know that the 8% came mostly from the top 50, or higher. Lucky bastards and bastardettes.

If you ski, Kitzbuhl was our favorite, but anything in Austria is great (choosing to ski/stay in Garmisch would be like skiing in Virginia when Colorado is available). You can stay in any of the towns around it and take connecting lifts to the top. Strasbourg is fun for a day trip. If you go to Rothenberg I highly recommend spending the night in the city, you get a completely different experience. Bruges (Belgium) is better than Rothenberg, and was our favorite, but is 4.5 hours away. You'll want/need 2 nights there minimum. It's also beer fest season in Bruges, if you like beer there's not a better place in the world for that weekend! Don't waste time in Heidelberg or Trier unless you are out of options or can't go further...Black Forest is also a waste unless you really want a cuckoo clock. Baden Baden = fun with the spouse (not with the parents) and if you see Burg Eltz or Nieuschweinstein (reserve your now...overly touristy, but still great), you'll never need to see another castle again. Sorry for any spelling errors...didn't care enough to look it up.

Just refinanced with Dave Devine. 3.25% with a $3.5K credit that covers the closing costs and .5% funding fee. Basically free money. Hope you guys can beat my good deal!

EGUN: home of the AF's worst fuel servicing for transient aircraft. There are a few civilian ATOC employees that I suspect will be looking for different careers due to this move.

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks. Thank God for pilot financial advice...the only financial advice I trust

A good argument of the Roth (which I already max) vs. Traditional. My question involves investing additionally into a Traditional IRA in order to lower my AGI to take advantage of certain tax credits/breaks that are only available to lower income filers.

Just opened my Roth TSP, looking forward to hearing an opinion on this! Another question: has anyone used a Traditional IRA to lower their tax bracket? For example, last year my adjusted gross (after 1 month of tax free kicked in) was about $4K too high to get the retirement savings credit (10% of savings up to $800 if I recall). I didn't think about it last year, but if I had post-contributed $4K to a 2013 Traditional Roth, I would have dropped my income enough to get an additional $800 credit, an immediate 20% return, plus any straight income tax deduction benefits. Does my math sound valid, or is there something I'm missing (besides future taxation of earnings, etc). I'm already maxing my Roth IRA.

Another anti-Ramsey here, although I wish like hell my in-laws that live paycheck to paycheck and are paying off several small purchases (TV, fridge, 2 cars, motorcycle) would listen to him. I've got the Hilton VISA. My wife and I travel a lot, and in the last three years I've stayed in free rooms in NYC, Amsterdam, Budapest, Nashville, Berlin, DC, Cologne, London, Dublin and a few others I can't remember. I put everything on it and pay it off each month. With technology these days, it's all automatic, I don't even have to look at a bill (just browse what I bought every few weeks or so to prevent wife or fraud buffoonery). Zero time, and what is essentially a free timeshare in my pocket. I also double the warranty of anything I buy, and get free rental insurance when I travel. Saying that cash is simpler is one thing, but arguing that it's somehow better than using credit responsibly doesn't add up.

So, everybody who deploys anywhere should go to SERE, right?

The point of TCAS is to verbally alert you so that you can keep your eyes outside until TCAS squawks, and then after while you're "CLIMBing" or DESCENDing." Having a copilot stare at a screen when you have a TA is not the intent, and is also a bad idea. I've had 4 HATRs. TCAS saved me on one of them, My eyes on the other 3.

The new 202V3 has changed "See and Avoid" to "Sense and Avoid." Hmmm

I've flown with many Flt Docs who are there to learn how we do our job, what we stress about, and to build trust with the flyers they take care. I respect the hell out of them. I've also flown with a few who are there to take a 3 hour nap in the back seat, collect tax free and flight pay, and leave as soon as you land...not so much.

They offered that at my CA base. Said it was good to know because anything ever happens at my off base house, they need to know what's inside. Take that as you will...I didn't give them the info. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

So pretty much every CGO-level job not in the cockpit, right? Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

Disagree, if only for the reason that we need to provide hope to those with shitty CCs that soon (<2 years) it'll pass. However, having 20 private jets flying dignitaries and DVs in from all over the world for a, say, COMUSAFE CoC is very wasteful. Also disagree about job moves. I did my last job for 2 years. I loved it, I was good at it, and I could do it both drunk or 90% asleep (both ops tested). I also got sick of it, and since I've left, others have done what I did better. Learning a new job only takes a couple of weeks. Yes to making tours 4 years instead of 3, to save on ridiculous PCS cost and buffoonery. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

Guy gets engaged. Other guys think girl is pretty. Suggestive observations/comments are made SARC: Suggestive comments lead to rape. Therefore, getting engaged = rape. Stay single my friends. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

If it's assignment night, you either have a pretty good idea of where you stand, or you're an ignoramus. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

Fair answer. The other 21 pages have a lot of guys who've never worked for the airlines telling other guys who've never worked for the airlines what they need. Then again, I've never worked for the airlines...that's why I asked. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!