Tierd of it all? I am....

[Jim Smyth]

I have 12 more years to go (hopefully sooner if things go right) until I head west, literally into the sunset. Can't wait!

 

[Bosley]

It sure would be nice if you would take some of that weirdo Airtran crowd with you, mainly Ty Webb and the other names he posts under like Best Pilot and Fletch 717. I know this board would thank you. I sure would.

You mean how you like to post under boring yellin/texas croch rot/chuck yogurt/lawman/einstein/sky fly, and numerous others all of which have been banned? Hey websitemaster, ban this punk, he's been nothing but trouble, plus his flight attendant doesn't afford him the $10.00 new admission fee!

 

[macfly]

I am looking forward to doing the same, but I've got a ways to go yet.

I did get lucky and bought a beach house on a little barrier island on the Gulf of Mexico, and that's where I spend much of my non-working time. It's basically a fishing village, with no stop lights, one grocery store, and some colorful locals.

The only bummer is renting it out to tourists during the summer, but it helps pay the bills, and the rest of the year it's ours to enjoy.

Would that happen to be SGI?

 

[Gorilla]

Guys, don't wreck this fantasy with personal garbage. Take it to PM.

 

[EMB170Pilot]

Oh yea, all you need to pack is a 1 pair of shorts, 1 pair of flip-flops, a drinking Hawaiian shirt of your choice, sunglasses, your favorite libation (Plenty of it) and your favorite stupid drinking hat that your wife or girlfriend dosnt let you wear. I will fire up the BBQ on the transom, you mix the margs, and I will cook the sailfish we cought. Oh and by the way, will you make me a drink while you are down there?

Any Takers?

Already living this lifestyle....just not retired and doing it fulltime

See you out there!

 

[Photoflight]

man i wish this guy was still around...i got enough in the bank for six months....

 

[FL350]

I guess for all you old guys its like the inmates watching one of their own get past the razor wire and the guards. But I gotta tell you, for a young guy like me it is very depressing. Is this what I am going to be like in 30 years? Does life suck that bad? Is it the airlines that do it to you or is it just flying for a living in general? I think I will go find something productive to do today.

-a happy inmate

 

[CFIcare]

You are my hero, Front Office. BTW can you drop me off in New Zealand? Anywhere will do. I can help out because I can catch, clean and cook a mean fish. I learned that so I could supplement the Ramen while sweating my butt off in a 172 for 3 years and 2000 hours of dual given for a scumbag FL operator. Keep us posted on your adventures. Do a blog with pics so we can all be jealous!

 

[Front Office]

For those of you that want to know.... I have been out on the pacific ocean for the past few months.

I will be updating this post within the next few days. Heading to the carribean for a nice summer. I will be putting together a link so you can see what we have been upto.

Sorry, if any of you show up in the pics, but, but, but ##it happens....

I have had several people join me on a leg or two. What a blast !!!

TTY soon....

I will have internet on the boat soon...

 

[Gorilla]

Front office! Dude, you're alive!

I guess for all you old guys its like the inmates watching one of their own get past the razor wire and the guards.

Good analogy. FO's posting is like the inmates in the big house getting a postcard from the escapee from some topless beach, like the shawshank redemption. Whatever you do, don't say something like "It sucks out here, I want to come back to the 121 world", or you'll hear of hundreds of simultaneous suicides from all over the country.

 

[Bankangle]

Cool Hand Luke

Remember when Luke breaks out of the chain gang and he sends back pictures of him with the ladies etc.? I feel like the George Kennedy character and the rest of the inmates reading these post.

 

[Swaayze]

Wooohoooo, he's alive and living the dream for us!



Only partially kidding and truly happy for him.

 

[jhill]

Ok, I am sick of all this airline B.S. You too? Been doing this crap for 27 years.



The FAA, bitchy old 250’ flight attendants with rear ends the size of pack mules, rags and f#g’s, bad schedules, being JA'ed, non-reving, bad management, dead heading in the middle seat, mergers, seniority, all-nighters, no food, bad coffee, bidding, sh#tty hotels, vacation, kids, wives, girlfriends, boyfriends or both, waiting for gates, weather, low approaches, PC's, PT's, weak check airman, medicals, driving to work, commuting to and from work, spring break, Christmas, Chanukah, Easter, car payments, house payments, insurance, alimony, child support, gas, electric bills, lawn service, maids (because your fat a## wife wont get her a## off the couch), cant drink, drug and alcohol testing, dry cleaning, security, TSA, Terrorism, bad porn, good porn you can't have, no porn magazines in the airplanes anymore, sexual harassment charges, high gas/oil prices, IRS, rush hour traffic, that d#mn alarm clock, crash pads, co-pilot's that tell you are a bit high and fast and she/he puts the frick-en speed breaks out 80 miles from the airport at 5000' when you are trying to get your commute flight home, flight attendants and co-pilots telling you they are senior after being there 3 years, cell phone's, bidding every d#mn month, they guy or gal on the headset that you cant understand and I am sure there is more.



Well I am sick of it!!! I just went out and bought a 40' ocean-going sailboat. I am out of here!!! No more of all this B.S.



Might even step up to the 56' by the years end if any of you want to come up with some additional bucks.



I am out of here in January. Quitting!!! Yep that’s right I am out of here. Want to go? Start planning, I want to see the world, want to go? Where we going, who knows, who cares!!! I do know there will be a stop in the Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, and New Zealand and where ever else the trade winds take us. We will decide when we want to! Not Crew Scheduling!!!



Want to go? Start planning, do you drink, smoke, or scratch you’re a## or balls in the morning? Who cares!!! I don't. Laid back, want to get away (Thanks WN), tired of all the Bull S., want to see the world, no hang-ups, enjoy life, have some extra bucks or just find this interesting, well e mail me.



I am selling everything as you read this. It's going to be so much fun to tell crew scheduling to sh#ve it up there a## on my last day, not to mention my chicken sh#t chief pilot.



I am fed up!!! You too? I am not kidding, sell the house, cars, and cash out the 401k’s, IRA’s, stocks, bonds or what ever else you may have. They will never find us. Just don’t plan on coming back if you sell all that stuff. I am not coming back. My closest friends will know where I am.



Take a chance and enjoy your life while you can….



I am…



Contact Departure…………. See ya,

when you sober up it won't be so bad

 

[blzr]

when you sober up it won't be so bad

"When the dust had finally setled and the air had quickly cleared, things were better off than I had feared."

 

[JT8D]

when you sober up it won't be so bad

Sounds like someone who speaks from experience. Have you already been through the "spin dry" program or something?