Tierd of it all? I am....

[Front Office]

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,

 

[Gulfstream 200]

Farkin Awesome.

Be sure and mount a 50cal on that puppy before venturing too far (pirates are very real) and bring every Hunter Thompson novel with you.

Have fun.

 

[720degpersec]

Hmmmm sounds like a pilot at my airline...who do you work for ?

 

[FN FAL]

Ha...sounds like fun. If you get stuck somewhere, let me know...I'll outfit a squad of misfits from this bbs and para-drop them in to rescue you. Yea, I know...they'll be doomed and so will you, but it'll be funny reading about it in the funny papers.

Good luck with the retirement!

 

[JetMonkey]

HERE, HERE! I totally agree and I am right there witcha.......in about 25 more years.

 

[labbats]

I wish you weren't quitting. You sound awesome!


Congrats and have fun.

 

[njcapt]

Take me with you? Please?

 

[Flechas]

I'd go with you if I didn't have all these freaking credit cards to pay!!! That's my kind of trip!!!!!
My retirement will be very simlar, only I'll have a small house in an island, with 71 virgins and a bunch of penguins

 

[dueguard1]

All this dissatisfaction,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Wow, and just think there's some 20 year old CFI, SWEATIN a hole through his docker khakis in some po-dunk 172 gettin paid minimum wage from some scum bag operator at some Non-towered airport in Dirtbag, Florida , pleading with Key Bank for his fourth of Fifth loan forebearance, takin crap from his live in girlfreind whose tired of supporting his ass wondering when he's gonna start making the big bucks and stop living off of Ramaen noodles and move out of the current dump their in and have a kid!! All this while some student pilot gives him sh#!t on a daily basis just because they can't perform a proper steep turn+/- 100 feet, walking into the FBO to hear another CFI spreading more bulls!%t than a Drunken Sailor to the tune of

"Yea Man, I heard Comair is really hiring at 6 and 1"! or my personal favorite
"Yea Man, You jus get gotta some more Multi-time"!

Oh yea and lest we forget the occasional career fair he's gonna blow 5 or 600 hundred bucks to travel to so some Regional recruiter could say something along the lines of-
" Yea, we're really looking for 250 Multi at this time, But Thanks for coming"!

 

[Flechas]

All this dissatisfaction,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Wow, and just think there's some 20 year old CFI, SWEATIN a hole through his docker khakis in some po-dunk 172 gettin paid minimum wage from some scum bag operator at some Non-towered airport in Dirtbag, Florida , pleading with Key Bank for his fourth of Fifth loan forebearance, takin crap from his live in girlfreind whose tired of supporting his ass wondering when he's gonna start making the big bucks and stop living off of Ramaen noodles and move out of the current dump their in and have a kid!! All this while some student pilot gives him sh#!t on a daily basis just because they can't perform a proper steep turn+/- 100 feet, walking into the FBO to hear another CFI spreading more bulls!%t than a Drunken Sailor to the tune of

"Yea Man, I heard Comair is really hiring at 6 and 1"! or my personal favorite
"Yea Man, You jus gotta some more Multi-time"!

Oh yea and lest we forget the occasional career fair he's gonna blow 5 or 600 hundred bucks to travel to so some Regional recruiter could say something along the lines of-
" Yea, we're really looking for 250 Multi at this time, But Thanks for coming"!

I'm sure Front office had to do the same stuff, maybe even worse. A 20 year old CFI has his life ahead of him, so if he's not happy about it, he still can have career change.

 

[pilotyip]

E K Gann did the same thing and then he got tried of sailing.

 

[FlyChicaga]

Best thread ever. E-V-E-R. Tell us about the BBQ grill you'll have on the aft section for all the swordfish you'll catch, and now we got ourselves a Flightinfo classic in the making.

Mmmm, grilled swordfish and margaritas.

 

[Front Office]

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?

 

[405]

Front Office, God bless you, man. Some day I will "drop out" and leave it all behind just like you. Good luck.

 

[PHXFLYR]

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?

I'm in ....never wanted to fly for USAirways anyway !!!

PHXFLYR

 

[stonewall]

Holy S***, Dad, I didn't know you posted on Flightinfo.com, too! Mom sure is gonna be pissed.....

 

[Rogue5]

Just had this thought today... Looked over to the guy on my right while holding short in front of a line waiting to go out of DEN:

"Ya know, cantcha just imagine when you're one week from 60? I'd imagine it being one he|| of a good trip."

Think of all the things you've wanted to say and do that it would seem like the perfect time to act on...

 

[front9]

dueguard1, have you ever traveled?

 

[thebluto]

Wait a minute. I gave up sailing around the world to try to be an airline pilot because I was bored. Am I just going to end up yearning for what I was doing?

(Kind of reminds me of a movie quote. "You don't have to have a million dollars to do nuthin'. Take a look at my cousin. He's broke...don't do $h!t")

 

[FN FAL]

dueguard1, have you ever traveled?

don't pick on dueguard...remember when you couldn't wait to eat at the "big people table" at Thanksgiving, instead of having to sit at the card table with the rest of the "children"?

 

[BIGBROWNDC8]

You guys are gong to love this post, Im plying the roll of KILL-JOY so here goes...

Seems like alot of people in this industry hate their job. Thats too bad... Dont get me wrong, Id quit tomorrow if it were possible, not because I hate my job, but Id rather sit at home thinking of ways to spend my time/money rather than being on someones clock. Just because I like to go against the popular decision every once in a while, unlike everyone elses appearent desires, I will keep my job and take the "UPS" and downs as they come. I chose this profession and I choose to be here, Ill make the best of it and not make up some "Jimmy Buffett" fantasy vacation and tell everyone Im quiting my job. Just a different perspective from a pilot who love what he does v/s the "this is the best post in the world" wouldnt it be great if we could all just quit our jobs and stick it to the man pilots... If thats you and your Sr to me, Have a good sail and watch those tradewinds...

 

[AlbieF15]

...well...don't stop to get a real job because once you've been an airline pilot every other job besides bar owner, porno star, or DJ at a Gentleman's club will seem like prison.... Enjoy the sailing, and send a PIREP when you can.

 

[Ty Webb]

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.

 

[PCL_128]

If thats you and your Sr to me, Have a good sail and watch those tradewinds...

My sentiments exactly...

 

[Capt1124]

Everything gets tired after awhile- even flying. Almost all flying jobs have a big element of routine, and you don't get the newness and excitement anymore.

Here's a quote from an oldtimer I heard second hand- "I like flying, but I don't like flying *that much*. I climb at the barber pole. I cruise at the barber pole. I descend at the barber pole. H@ll, if I could, I'd taxi at the barber pole!"

 

[ss278]

I was in Alaska two summers ago and chartered a float plane to take us up to a fishing camp. I sat next to the pilot and we talked quite a bit about flying and his life up there. Said he wasn't a full-time resident, just came up each summer to fly and had been doing it for about five years, ever since he retired from his job. He'd been flying as a "second job and for fun" in San Diego for twenty years. I asked what his real job was and he told me he had been a Lieutenant in the S.D. police department.

When he retired, he sold everything and bought a boat to live on. I was impressed, I said it must be pretty nice to live in San Diego in the winter and come up to fly in the summer. Yeah, he said, but I don't live in S.D anymore. Well, where do you have to boat moored, I ask. He responded, "when I left to come up this year it was in Fiji, next year, who knows. I'm hoping to get down to New Zealand by then, but hey it could be anywhere."

This guy was only five years older than me. All I could do was sit there for he next forty-five minutes without much to say, trying to figure out where I screwed up.

 

[stonewall]

Everything gets tired after awhile- even flying. Almost all flying jobs have a big element of routine, and you don't get the newness and excitement anymore.

Here's a quote from an oldtimer I heard second hand- "I like flying, but I don't like flying *that much*. I climb at the barber pole. I cruise at the barber pole. I descend at the barber pole. H@ll, if I could, I'd taxi at the barber pole!"

Good point...I like my job(s), but in my book the only thing better than a day of flying is a day OFF!

 

[TAZ MAN]

Good point...I like my job(s), but in my book the only thing better than a day of flying is a day OFF!

So true. But I must admit after a few days off, I still look forward to go flying. And thats after 25 years into this career.

But thats not for everyone. Happy sailing me bucko.

 

[Photoflight]

I got a **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**ty old jeep, a well worn coozie, and great set of flops, a **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** nice hawaiian shirt, a cowboy hat made for drinkin beer on a boat and a company credit card that just got paid off last month.........Its **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** tempting...**CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** tempting. I love flying but a love being a drunk on a boat so much more.

 

[AMRCostUnit]

This guy was only five years older than me. All I could do was sit there for he next forty-five minutes without much to say, trying to figure out where I screwed up.

Here is where you (and I) screwed up: He has a civil service pension. Law enforcement retires at 55 earlier at around 75% of pay and benefits. Plus, I have never heard of them losing their pension to the PCGB...I will encourage my kids to go into public service of some sort for this reason.

If they want to fly for anyone other than Uncle Sam I'll cut em' out of my will!!!

Unit