65 a cutoff?

[linder]

He meant 2 miles

Not in the same day!!!

 

[gunfyter]

[FONT=ARIAL,VERDANA,HELVETICA][SIZE=+7] For Baby Boomers, it's now 'work til you drop'...[/SIZE][/FONT]

 

[pilotyip]

[FONT=ARIAL,VERDANA,HELVETICA][SIZE=+7] For Baby Boomers, it's now 'work til you drop'...[/SIZE][/FONT]

even for pre-boomers and why not? Work is fun.

 

[AftCG182]

even for pre-boomers and why not? Work is fun.

Bingo! I'm 44 and already stressing a bit about retiring. Why would I ever want to stop doing this? Fractional flying is a great time!

Guess I'll just be in the next group of 70 year-olds that the pimple-faced bunch is b!tching about in these threads.

 

[gunfyter]

Its already like being retired. You work 26 weeks a year. But you have 4 weeks vacation, 2 weeks you can be sick. So thats only 20 weeks you have to work. 2 weeks you train. Now you are only on the road 18 weeks.

But 36 days of those 18 weeks you are airlining. That's 5 weeks ... so all together you are working 13 weeks a year where you can fly.

You average 5 hours a so in the air each of those days and there you get your 450 to 550 hours you fly every year.

 

[tomgoodman]

Work is fun.

Yes, it was. But retirement is funner.

 

[pilotyip]

Yes, it was. But retirement is funner.

But I tried it; it is boring. All I did was hang around airports, and not get paid for it.

 

[Duke of Ale]

And with that, I will go to bed......


From a fractional pilot who is 70+

Hehe!

His Aboveness

Duke of Ale

 

[G4dude]

But I tried it; it is boring. All I did was hang around airports, and not get paid for it.

Too funny! I plan to perfect my shabby golf game and travel a lot, still not getting paid for the travel.

 

[G4dude]

Bingo! I'm 44 and already stressing a bit about retiring. Why would I ever want to stop doing this? Fractional flying is a great time!

Guess I'll just be in the next group of 70 year-olds that the pimple-faced bunch is b!tching about in these threads.

Its true! Fractional flying is a lot of fun. Getting paid to fly with friends, eat good food, and see the world.

 

[OPECJet]

But I tried it; it is boring. All I did was hang around airports, and not get paid for it.

A fishing pole and an M-1 Garand will fix that.... Fishing pole is cheap, M-1, not so much.

 

[ozpilot]

And with that, I will go to bed......


From a fractional pilot who is 70+

Hehe!

His Aboveness

Duke of Ale

Great seeing you in Santa Barbara the other day Dukie!

 

[Grizz]

Duke -

You are a walking, talking anomaly. I hope I look half as good as you do when I'm 70.

 

[BuckMurdock1]

But I tried it; it is boring. All I did was hang around airports, and not get paid for it.

Gotta love this business! I can't think of too many lawyers or doctors who choose to hang around law firms or hospitals after retirement..and they, like pilots, are also generally passionate about their chosen professions.

I guess it all comes down to two philosophical choices:
1) Work to live
2) Live to work

I choose #1. You have apparently chosen #2.

 

[pilotyip]

Gotta love this business! I can't think of too many lawyers or doctors who choose to hang around law firms or hospitals after retirement..and they, like pilots, are also generally passionate about their chosen professions.

I guess it all comes down to two philosophical choices:
1) Work to live
2) Live to work

I choose #1. You have apparently chosen #2.

sure have, #2 is the only reason to live. I am still living the dream of a 5 year old; that is why I own an airplane, and live within two miles of the airport, spend my summer flying the B-17 and C-47 around to airshows at only a small cost to myself, food, car etc.

 

[gunfyter]

Confederate Air Force?

 

[pilotyip]

Confederate Air Force?

Please, Confederate is a politically incorrect word, it shows that you endorse slavery. So it is now the Commemorative Air Force. Anyway I fly for the Yankee Air Force out of KYIP​

 

[gunfyter]

Please, Confederate is a politically incorrect word, it shows that you endorse slavery. So it is now the Commemorative Air Force. Anyway I fly for the Yankee Air Force out of KYIP​

I thought being anti-union meant you endorse slavery ... :laugh:

 

[pilotyip]

I thought being anti-union meant you endorse slavery ... :laugh:

got me all wrong, I am union neutral

 

[Humphreybogart]

Bump

 

[LAZYB]

Bump

Don't you have a rectal exam to schedule?

 

[eelb53]

Aviation's got to be the only field where there's a contingent that wants people to retire as soon as possible. Everywhere else people are being told to work forever, because there's no money for senior entitlements.