Flying for Law Enforcement

[navigator72]

Having a very good friend who flies Helo's for a police dept and having a girlfriend who works as a state trooper I can say I don't know a whole lot about it. So I'm going to go to the fridge and have a beer.

Happy Flying.

 

[sqwkvfr]

I AM a police officer now.

I really wish you would have said that...you'd have saved me a lot of time.

Well, if nothing else you know exactly what I'm talking about.

You wanna move to Phoenix and do you have uncorrected vision of better than 20/80 OR are a successful long-term wearer of soft contacts, PHX PD has a really good aviation unit...tough competition, however, AND mostly helo ops.

AZ DPS has a some helos and fixed wings...but you'd have to put in your time in metro PHX running from deuce to deuce for while.

My former roomate (PHX PD) went through the academy w/ a couple of new-hire DPS guys. She was of the opinion that DPS is using the "fog a mirror" test for recruits...so it might not be that tought to get on with them.

 

[Vne]

I thought the Feds changed the 6c retirement to 37 yrs old to get on...
I was a US Customs pilot back in the 80's and it was 35 then but I thought they made it 37 not to long ago...fun job good people should have stayed there as I am furloughed now... o well

 

[satpak77]

I thought the Feds changed the 6c retirement to 37 yrs old to get on...
I was a US Customs pilot back in the 80's and it was 35 then but I thought they made it 37 not to long ago...fun job good people should have stayed there as I am furloughed now... o well

OPM rules now dictate that 37 is max entry age. If you started any "6c" law enforcement, that starts the FERS 25-year clock, allowing you to retire with 25 years of LE time.

I know some guys who joined Border Patrol out of college at age 22, went DEA/FBI/Customs/ATF/etc and can retire when they turn 47 with full benefits.

not a bad deal, in light of today's economic climate

 

[cvtplt]

I don't know where you are a cop, but when I was in law enforcement, the department I was on wanted us to know how to spell and type. Or at least use spell check. Maybe there are less reports to write as a pilot.

 

[sqwkvfr]

I don't know where you are a cop, but when I was in law enforcement, the department I was on wanted us to know how to spell and type. Or at least use spell check. Maybe there are less reports to write as a pilot.

Maybe they use a Dictophone.

 

[FN FAL]

Maybe they use a Dictophone.

If you cross a penis with a potato, you'll get dictater.