if all pilot jobs paid the same...

[Ready2Fly]

The senior guy at UPS, who pays the same regardless of what you fly, flies an A300 domestically. So I've been told.

 

[flx757]

Ready2Fly is TheGuat, Rhoid, IHaveAPension, LucyFurr, E170GuppyKiller, TheGuppyKiller, GuppyKiller, TheMissingLink, ABXpert, UPSer, RJDC, OUT, 410Dude, BR549, FreightNazi....etc...etc... Ignore anything and everything he has to say. He has been "permanently" banned over 20 times yet continues to come around just to annoy people. Swat this fly.

 

[Sticky]

I love my job. Only work about 3 days a week, home almost every night and make as much as most 1st year RJ captains. The only catch is that it's all 421 and 441 time and 40 hours a month. I'm not really gaining good log book time.

 

[landlover]

spraying coco leaves in an airtractor in colombia

 

[urflyingme?!]

Matlock's personal chef

 

[avbug]

That would be spraying coca in an OV-10, and poppy in the air tractor...or, as suits the occasion.

If the pay were the same, I suppose I'd be doing what I'm doing now...now being any given day...it's never been about the pay. Pay is good, but if maximizing the paycheck were the goal, then work outside of aviation would probably be the order of the day.

Out of curiosity, flx, how can you tell that the person you just called out is the same person? I realize that folks do it here all the time...but you seem to dedicate most of your energy here to finding people and harassing them, rather than contributing to threads...you seem to follow people around the boards and post about them, rather than actually posting material germain to the thread. That aside, what convinces you the poster you've most lately attacked is the same as all the other names you cited?

Along the same vein, what did that poster contribute in this thread that incites you to riot, and wakes you from the dead this fine day?

I'd have to say firebomber, if I could be at home every night.

You can...just a different "home" every night. Think of it as a home life that lets you eat out every night, and gives you a six month vacation each year. Tom Bodet will leave the light on for you.

 

[aviator1978]

I'd say CFI'ing as well. For me, the feeling of helping a student earn a license or rating is about the only positive in aviation right now.

 

[8inMan]

You can...just a different "home" every night. Think of it as a home life that lets you eat out every night, and gives you a six month vacation each year. Tom Bodet will leave the light on for you.

That's one way to look at it.

 

[gkrangers]

I love my job. Only work about 3 days a week, home almost every night and make as much as most 1st year RJ captains. The only catch is that it's all 421 and 441 time and 40 hours a month. I'm not really gaining good log book time.

Are you PIC on the 441? I would think thats quality timee...

 

[TrafficDawg]

Aaah, the perfect flying job...

Dogging freight at night, up and down the coast of Maine... no complaints from the back, moonlight over the water (when you can see it through the fog, of course) is beautiful... home during the days near BOS or MHT, overnights down east on occasion... (we'll disregard any mention of icing, late couriers, extra turns, and loading our own freight in sub zero weather at PQI)

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If I got paid as much as much as my neighbor thinks I do, and got as many days off as my accountant thinks I do, and got as much a** as my wife thinks I do, this WOULD be the perfect job

 

[Almerick07]

billabongs grumman would be a tight gig.....if it wasnt down for over a month and half because of a brake line or something dumb. Is the girl thats sitting right seat on that bad boy a part of this board...I'd be happy to take her job from her.

 

[Fugawe]

Ahhh, Camelot if we could have it.................

Choices in order of age of pilot:

1. Age 20-45 years. Aerobatics or high speed/high G flying, Red Flag scenarios -- any mix of these.

2. Age 45-60 years. Any flying that doesn't require flight attendants.

3. Age 60+. Any flying that doesn't spill coffee, and with easy access to a bathroom/head.


Fugawe

 

[ReverseSensing]

Along the same vein, what did that poster contribute in this thread that incites you to riot, and wakes you from the dead this fine day?

Avbug wondering what makes someone else go off...that's rich!

Just so I don't get accused of not adding something germaine: I always thought if I could have picked the days when I flew a sled around the Y-K Delta, it would have been a great job. But alas, there was nearly always something:

Too much wind.
Too much freezing drizzle/rain.
Runways too muddy/too icy.
Too many mosquitoes.
Too much mail.
Too little mail.
Too many passengers.
Too few passengers.
Too cold.
Too few mechanics.
Too few parts.
Too few rampers (usually went hand in hand with too much mail).
Too much blood (moose, caribou, etc.) to clean up.

But there was that one day....a little piece of heaven.

 

[MFRskyknight]

Tom Bodet will leave the light on for you.

I got an unsolicted wake-up call at 4:30 am from "Tom Bodet" once while staying in OKC. He told me I had just won ten million dollars. Then he told me he was just kidding. Woke me up, but maaaaaaaaaaaan..... I hate Tom Bodet! :angryfire

MFR

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

Traffic pilot.

CE

 

[AA717driver]

If I could make $120k with 12% into a DAP and go back and fly the Shorts 360 out of PHX on the old StatesWest routes, you'd never see my a$$ 'round here again! TC

 

[lurker]

A better question would be what would you do if you had a million dollars?

:beer:

I've gotta say, it would have to be two chicks at the same time. because that's the only way two chicks would double up on a guy like me.

 

[mcjohn]

Space tourism when it becomes widely available. I could get into taking folks into to a sub orbit a few times a week.
How about zero gravity tourism. It would be fun to take a wide body jet and pad it all up for those zero gravity dive rides. I saw that the Jackass or Wildboyz guys did it on one of their shows. I think they were in another country. Anyone see that?

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

I've gotta say, it would have to be two chicks at the same time. because that's the only way two chicks would double up on a guy like me.

"What would I do with $1,000,000?
Nothing.....absolutely nothing."

CE


"Sir...sir?...I beleive you have my stapler"

 

[timeoff]

"ya.....I'm doin' the drywall over at the new McDonald's"

"pc load letter......wtf does that mean"