Close. It's basically public. According ~public sources which may or may not be accurate, It's ~160k a year if I don't pick up any overtime.
You’re not 15 months into your aviation career. When did you get your PPL?
I let a friend talk me into letting him walk my resume in for a flying job.
Yeah, a year and a half for me. I thought I’d miss it. I was wrong.
But now who fixed your printer when it won't connect?
Better aim than you expected?
I think @SixPapaCharlie's kids are of the age when you're ready to be done with them being kids.
Only 5???
Truth. I remember when you could pay to work for a night cargo outfit, and when I got my commercial you could go work for Great Lakes for a whopping $19 per flight hour.
Nobody, because printers are dumb and nobody likes them and why do we have paper anyway?
Almost double what it was when I interviewed there. (I think I figured just over $13,000 per year if you maxed out your annual hours in 10 months and got paid for doing nothing in November and December. But you could make double that as a captain.)
When I was hired at Nashville Eagle in 1991, it was $15.50/hr.
Every time we get a long printout from the ACARS printer I say, "welcome to the paperless cockpit!"
Four times minimum wage. Not bad!
Woooo look at the big money at Eagle!
When I was little, I fell in love with flying after one of our farm landlords took me up. I was always begging to go and spending all my time on MSFS. I said that I wanted to be an airline pilot, but was told that there was no money in it...that I'd be grinding away at poverty wages at the regionals for 15 years before making decent money at a major. At the time, I suppose that was right. One of the boys who took me up in his dad's plane was living through that experience then, which is why they discouraged me. Had I pursued it anyway, I would've been looking for a first job in maybe 2005, and possibly gotten furloughed in 2008. Who knows what might've been.
And yet, that was still better than the $775.50 a buddy was making ref #579. Let's not forget that there were some who actually PAID for the privilege of being copilots at certain scumbag operations--a negative salary, as it were.
Right after I got my multi commercial ticket, I started getting cards in the mail advertising pay for right seat time.
Best decision you’ll ever make.
Heh... When I was in primary flight training, my CFI said "ooooh, we get paid on Friday! I can finally buy that box of ramen I've had my eye on..."
Are you sure that’s a good idea?
But as you stroll along these beaches, your tranquility can be somewhat interrupted by the thought that you are actually in the world's second most violent city.
Touring Mexico's Most Violent City
You might feel quite pleased about life if you go to Acapulco, Mexico. The snazzy high-rise hotels provide beautiful views of the deep blue sea. The weather is deliciously warm. The city itself sits on a picture perfect bay, framed by small hills and white houses that give the area a...abcnews.com
Does Eren accuse you of taking vacations without her yet?
I try to bring her along if it's a long over night to a cool location.
That made me think about how, unlike US destinations, the Mexican airports seem to be much more segregated by mainline or Express flights. At the Mexican airports that I fly to, SJD, PVR, MEX, CUN, I don't see any US regional flights and whenever regional pilots talk about Mexican destinations, they are places that I've never been with mainline.
There seems to be a contradiction in those two statements.
