BravoHotel
Well-Known Member
I know this is the heart of everything evil, but bear with me. This is from my point of view on a very volatile subject. Here I stand 32 years of age, 97K in debt from going to ATP, a Riddle degree, and I am working on parachutes for a living, going to school with my post 9/11 GI Bill to earn the BHA (Basic Housing Allowance) so I can pay rent on my apartment, my student loan( 658 a month), food, gas, and and car insurance. My fiance is an Army E-5, she makes most of the bucks actually. I am not living a luxury life here by any stretch of the imagination. I just separated from the Air National Guard working on C-130s, waiting to be in- processed to the Air Force Reserve so I can go to Flight Engineer school for C-5s.
Every time I pay that student loan payment I am thinking to my self why am I not flying? I am paying for it, but I am not using it. I can't even afford to go out and rent an ultra light or an LSA to fly around the patch for a few hours.
I have 750 tt and I have thought to my self, you know what, I could fly for FREE. I need to fly, it hurts me not to fly. But I don't.
Then reality sets in, I can't pick up and move cross country for some low wage flying job to build hours. I had a couple job offers in the jump pilot sector, for like 400 a week. I don't have enough time to fly for a regional because of the new rulings. I had a call back from Surf Air but not to be a pilot, a "flight coordinator" since I didn't have the 800TT required to be a F/O on their PC-12s....
Anyways. Is there something I am missing, not getting or blind to? Any help in "getting it" would be appreciated. If you're in Sacramento, CA I can take you out for a PBR, but thats about it.
Ben
Every time I pay that student loan payment I am thinking to my self why am I not flying? I am paying for it, but I am not using it. I can't even afford to go out and rent an ultra light or an LSA to fly around the patch for a few hours.
I have 750 tt and I have thought to my self, you know what, I could fly for FREE. I need to fly, it hurts me not to fly. But I don't.
Then reality sets in, I can't pick up and move cross country for some low wage flying job to build hours. I had a couple job offers in the jump pilot sector, for like 400 a week. I don't have enough time to fly for a regional because of the new rulings. I had a call back from Surf Air but not to be a pilot, a "flight coordinator" since I didn't have the 800TT required to be a F/O on their PC-12s....
Anyways. Is there something I am missing, not getting or blind to? Any help in "getting it" would be appreciated. If you're in Sacramento, CA I can take you out for a PBR, but thats about it.
Ben