Recap 2007

BobDDuck

BobDDuck

Island Bus Driver
I was preparing some stuff for my taxes and this is what I got.

I flew 874 hours on 680 flights meaning my average leg time was 1:13 minutes. I flew 193,266NM on those flights for an average stage length of 284NM. I flew with 64 different captains.

I overnighted 137 times including:

CLT 15 CHA 13 CAE 13 BHM 6 CAK 6 ATL 5 GSP 4 PGV 4 SDF 4 AVL 4 HPN 4 CVG 4 LIT 4 ILM 4 SAV 4 CLE 3 TLH 3 DCA 3 LEX 3 OAJ 3 TRI 3 CHS 3 AVP 3 ALB 2 FAY 2 PHF 2 MEM 2 CKB 2 CRW 2 PHL 2 MGM 2 XNA 1 GSO 1 JAN 1


Numbers are fun.
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Wow, cool summary. I also want to do that on a map...but I don't think they have Afghanistan! Plus, 99% of my sorties started and ended at the same airfield.
 
No way to know how many passengers. Some flights were full some only had 3 people.

The map is part of LogBook Pro's Route Browser. It's any extra $20 I think, but sort of a fun toy.
 
I had to do the overnight data (which came directly out of APDL). Everything else was LBP and RouteFinder.
 
Out of curiosity, what can be written off as "business/travel" expenses for us? Meals? Driving to the employee lot? Anything?
 
Driving to and from the airport can not be written off.

Things you CAN write off...

-The difference between your daily per diem and the government rate for where you overnight.

ex. we get about $33 a day in per diem. In DCA the gov rate is (last year anyways) $64. So I can deduct $31 for every DCA overnight I have.

-You can deduct the cost of your medical.

-You can deduct any uniform expenses the company DOES NOT reimburse your for.

-You maybe able to deduct part of your cell phone bill if you use it for company business at all.

-You can maybe deduct the cost of attending a Jetcareers meet and greet if you consider it a education or career enhancement event.

There are others out there, but that is what I can think of off the top of my head.
 
Note that you have to file Schedule A to do this, and there is a 2% income gap before anything is written off. You do need to keep track to know if it is better, but you will need to be writting off a mortgage interest or something else to most likely filing Schedule A over standard deduction.
 
BobDDuck said:
ex. we get about $33 a day in per diem. In DCA the gov rate is (last year anyways) $64. So I can deduct $31 for every DCA overnight I have.
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Correct me if I am wrong but can't you only deduct 75% of the difference for 2007?

For anyone curious, I've attached part of a worksheet from pilot-tax.com that lists the most common deductions for pilots (Adobe PDF format). Some things would be obvious but others not so much. Keep in mind anything under $75 doesn't require a receipt, just a note somewhere that you purchased the item on such and such a date at a certain cost.

If you own a house and pay interest you'll come out way ahead if you itemize. If not you'll be hard pressed to come up with more, at least in my experience. This year I'm not even bothering with the extra time and expense of sending it out to be done since I'll have to come up with $10k+ in writeoffs.
 
BobDDuck said:
I was preparing some stuff for my taxes and this is what I got.

I flew 874 hours on 680 flights meaning my average leg time was 1:13 minutes. I flew 193,266NM on those flights for an average stage length of 284NM. I flew with 64 different captains.

I overnighted 137 times including:

CLT 15 CHA 13 CAE 13 BHM 6 CAK 6 ATL 5 GSP 4 PGV 4 SDF 4 AVL 4 HPN 4 CVG 4 LIT 4 ILM 4 SAV 4 CLE 3 TLH 3 DCA 3 LEX 3 OAJ 3 TRI 3 CHS 3 AVP 3 ALB 2 FAY 2 PHF 2 MEM 2 CKB 2 CRW 2 PHL 2 MGM 2 XNA 1 GSO 1 JAN 1


Numbers are fun.
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...and an average GS of 237 knots???
 
I threw my flights from 2007 into the flightmemory thing and this is what came out:

Looks like more of a shotgun blast than a hub-n-spoke!
 

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