Airline Pilot Lifespan

Derg said:
How's the beef, man? :)
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OMG you should of seen the beef yesterday!
Was stuck in Winston Salem and got the corned beef at Finnigans Wake...
It still wasn't as beautiful as our beef, the beef we shared...together, that night.
 
bucksmith said:
OMG you should of seen the beef yesterday!
Was stuck in Winston Salem and got the corned beef at Finnigans Wake...
It still wasn't as beautiful as our beef, the beef we shared...together, that night.
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Damn that was about the funniest thing ever!
 
Rocketman99 said:
Seeing this thread is odd. I was under the impression that studies had shown your average airline pilot dropped dead within 2-5 years of retiring?
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There was one for Fedex years back, the Fedex guys call it the "50 club", when they hit 60 they have 50 months to live.

Going off memory, so careful of that, and twice today someone has made my point before I did so someone may have already answered your question a page ago.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
@amorris311 is absolutely right. It's almost always an issue of screening. I take over properties on a regular basis with problem tenants from individual landlords who were trying to manage their properties themselves, and they did zero screening. Didn't even get social security numbers. And then they wonder why they have problems.
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Why do the work when you can blame it on poor people? #justAmericanthings
 
jynxyjoe said:
There was one for Fedex years back, the Fedex guys call it the "50 club", when they hit 60 they have 50 months to live.

Going off memory, so careful of that, and twice today someone has made my point before I did so someone may have already answered your question a page ago.
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66.49 years is the average age of when the typical SouthernJetter drops off the radar as per statistics.

It's not sad, it's a gift. It tells you that you'd better get busy living because if you try to backload all of your plans for retirement, after you get your water cannon salute, you're better off eating the cake, doing the photo op, changing in the terminal and heading straight to Jamaica to smoke huge bowls of weed and snort a mountain of cocaine off a strippers butt in Amsterdam.
 
Derg said:
66.49 years is the average age of when the typical SouthernJetter drops off the radar as per statistics.

It's not sad, it's a gift. It tells you that you'd better get busy living because if you try to backload all of your plans for retirement, after you get your water cannon salute, you're better off eating the cake, doing the photo op, changing in the terminal and heading straight to Jamaica to smoke huge bowls of weed and snort a mountain of cocaine off a strippers butt in Amsterdam.
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Oh I plan to live to 80-100, see grandkids, try not to get lung cancer from all the weed I smoke when I retire (assuming it's all legal by that time :) ).

I'm not checking out at 67'ish
 
Derg said:
66.49 years is the average age of when the typical SouthernJetter drops off the radar as per statistics.

It's not sad, it's a gift. It tells you that you'd better get busy living because if you try to backload all of your plans for retirement, after you get your water cannon salute, you're better off eating the cake, doing the photo op, changing in the terminal and heading straight to Jamaica to smoke huge bowls of weed and snort a mountain of cocaine off a strippers butt in Amsterdam.
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Nah, sounds pretty sad to me.
 
Derg said:
66.49 years is the average age of when the typical SouthernJetter drops off the radar as per statistics.
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I'm curious how much of this is due to what us pilots eat and our lack of exercise. Eating out a lot means eating a lot of hamburgers and fried foods. I found myself eating tons of fried foods and am trying to cut back. Tastes great but I would like to live past 40.
 
I'm sure that's some if it (I've found weight loss to be pretty easy since I stopped flying for a living). But I'm sure it's also the fact that most guys at the legacies spend a lot of years flying crazy international schedules that just aren't good for you.
 
I'd be curious to see a breakdown of career regional pilots vs pilots who fly long haul/intl.

Also, commuters vs non-commuters. An AME once told me he could tell who commuted by checking their blood pressure/pulse...
 
Vyse said:
I'd be curious to see a breakdown of career regional pilots vs pilots who fly long haul/intl.

Also, commuters vs non-commuters. An AME once told me he could tell who commuted by checking their blood pressure/pulse...
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You can do the same thing with an Engineer from Boeing. It's bizarre but Boeing Engineers and airline pilots seem to have the same life expectancy.

Someone's gotta help me out here. Fedex had a study that showed their pilots died before other guys because of the back side of the clock flying. ALPA fought to get the study results. It was a big deal a while back. Someone remmeber what I'm talking about I can't find a reference online.
 
Derg said:
66.49 years is the average age of when the typical SouthernJetter drops off the radar as per statistics.

It's not sad, it's a gift. It tells you that you'd better get busy living because if you try to backload all of your plans for retirement, after you get your water cannon salute, you're better off eating the cake, doing the photo op, changing in the terminal and heading straight to Jamaica to smoke huge bowls of weed and snort a mountain of cocaine off a strippers butt in Amsterdam.
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Stupid question maybe. If that number is correct for the Delta pilot why can't you all have your pension back? Fedex does and they have a close number.

Are you sure it's that low? I thought you guys did better than that.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
Nah, sounds pretty sad to me.
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Perspective.

Men in my family don't last a long time. My namesake (I) died in his late 30's and my father died in his early 60's and one of the last chats we had as he lay dying was about the important of planning for the future but the charge to live NOW because the future is guaranteed to no one.

That's a powerful message when you're in your mid 20's.

To me, it's not depressing, it charged me with getting off my ass and living life.

How many guys who are reading this are sitting around counting time until their kids start college, or move out of the house, or "One day, I'm going to finally get around traveling"?
 
jynxyjoe said:
Stupid question maybe. If that number is correct for the Delta pilot why can't you all have your pension back? Fedex does and they have a close number.

Are you sure it's that low? I thought you guys did better than that.
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Nope. I've got the spreadsheet right here on my computer with data up to 2012.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
But I'm sure it's also the fact that most guys at the legacies spend a lot of years flying crazy international schedules that just aren't good for you.
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This is why I am in no hurry to fly heavies or go do cargo again. I think a high seniority single aisle CA seat will be just fine in my future.

jynxyjoe said:
Someone's gotta help me out here. Fedex had a study that showed their pilots died before other guys because of the back side of the clock flying. ALPA fought to get the study results. It was a big deal a while back. Someone remmeber what I'm talking about I can't find a reference online.
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I would imagine studies for long hall flying would be exactly the same. Having to constantly rotate your sleep schedule around so you can have a life at home just does not sound very healthy at all.
 
Derg said:
Nope. I've got the spreadsheet right here on my computer with data up to 2012.
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Fedex wasn't that far off that 66 number if memory serves. Argghh. Why can't I remember stuff anymore? I used to remember all kinds of useless facts.
 
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