invertmast
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I think flying the sand box in a C-12 would be a good gig as long as you don't mind the tracer rounds. I'd jump all over that, flying around in a C12 beats driving around in a convoy.
Actually its pretty tough to hit an airplane without using up a lot of rounds, unless you got a shoulder fired SAM and even that a tough bet on a turboprop.
As far as life on a base downrange, it ain't that bad for civilian contractors, you can call home every night if you want, plus you have TV internet and snail mail. Things have changed a bit over there, unless your 11 Bullet catcher working out of an FOB
Take the money and run man, you might just like it, and you'll pay off your loans in no time. You want free of the debt or not:rawk:
By the way, thats tax free money up to about 80K a year for most folks, and thats a huge deal!!
Bill,
this is the route its looking like i will be taking. If my finances are managed correctly and the pay is what i am hearing from other pilots, i will be able to pay off the $150-200k+ pay back value of the loan (interest is a bitch) in roughly 3 to 4 years. The big thing i'm having the issue is, i can stay with the division i'm with now for another year and tough out a year of financial hell, and swap divisions as a captain in a A90 or C-12 and make double the money as i would an FO, if i was to go into that division now. Doing the later would allow me to pay off the same loan in about 2 years.
Doog,
according to casa, to transfer an ATP to a Casa ATP, its a matter of taking the casa equivalent of the FAA Instrument Written and an instrument flight exam. The Big issue is obtaining the permanent work visa. According to a few people (one of them is our chief pilot while working here in australia) who knows a few people high up in CASA, we (me and the other pilot could get a job ANYWHERE in australia), IF we were able to obtain all the necessary documents. Which from my research lately appears damn near impossible for a US pilot to get a permanent work visa for australia.