The dark side of the pilot shortage.

NovemberEcho said:
I don't understand the hate on cargo shorts. Comfortable, functional, and look good. A helluva lot better than these skin tight above the knees euro-trash shorts kids are wearing these days. And ladies, im sorry but only about 1 in 20 of you can pull off high waisted shorts.
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The key is to reach an age where you give zero effs what anyone thinks about how you dress and are more concerned with whether it’s functional and comfortable.

As for high waisted shorts, I’m pretty sure they require 80s hair and sky high heels.
 
Uggh, pilots and fashion advice.

Screaming_Emu said:
Actually I’m a big fan of stretchy hiking pants. They’re like the dude version of yoga pants. So damn comfortable, plus they show off my moose knuckle.
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Roger Roger said:
The key is to reach an age where you give zero effs what anyone thinks about how you dress and are more concerned with whether it’s functional and comfortable.

As for high waisted shorts, I’m pretty sure they require 80s hair and sky high heels.
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I prefer to not let the world think I've given up. Plus I respect my wife more than that. I want her to look nice so I put in effort too.

Don't be that guy with hair growing out of his ears and bushy eyebrows.
 
thegriffinpages said:
I've never hiked in anything other than cargo shorts or nylon zip off pants.

I'm not a yoga pant type person.
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I didn’t mean the yoga pants thing in a way other than the fact that they’re stupid comfortable.

The moose knuckle part was just because it’s funny since I’ve been drinking.

So useful on the road though. I hiked up the old checkerboard in HKG in August. Sweat all the way through. Got back to the hotel, remembered that I had to commercial to SYD that afternoon, washed them in the sink, hung them up in the room to dry, was all set in an hour.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
Labor costs are a miniscule portion of the overall cost of a charter. The company that hangars my 421 for me also owns a King Air for charter. I had them price it for me recently in case my plane is ever down. What they're paying the pilots was a single digit percentage of the overall cost of the charter. You're paying primarily for fuel, engine and maintenance reserves, and management overhead. Labor is nothing. If you're going to drop $6k on a charter flight, you're not going to stop chartering and go back to airlining just because it goes up to $6,200 to throw labor a bone.
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My first 135 passenger job restricted us to a $15/meal allowance. Use it or lose it.

You mean to tell me if I spend $20 on a Chili's hamburger and a beer, the company will go under? Gimme a break. The problem with most charter operators is that they step over a dollar to pick up a dime. They have no issues with all of money they invest into new hires, rather than retaining their own talent.

Whatever. 121, here I come.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
First, my father isn't dead, so I didn't inherit anything. He still works for me. Second, what I "took over" was the typical real estate agent LLC. If you're not in the industry, you may not be familiar, but many successful real estate agents start their own LLC for tax advantages, even if they're working for another brokerage. John Doe the real estate agent who works for a RE/Max brokerage starts an LLC called John Doe Enterprises LLC, has the brokerage pay him his commissions through the LLC, and then gets lots of tax benefits. That's essentially what my father had. He was a one-man show using an LLC for tax and liability reasons. I took that and turned it into one of the largest property management businesses in the state. Then expended into another state. Then started a couple of other companies to use for buying and renting out properties. Etc.

No hypocrisy here, boss.
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