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YouTube recommended this video to me in general today, without me having to search it. So it appears to be doing well!

I am only good for a few things. Mostly alliteration and bad examples/negative role modeling.

Welcome to JG1 We have: The Shad Shack The Barton Carton The Ted Trailer The Lead Lounge

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So I had a quick Surf through this, shot out a bunch of emails and looked at the pay and reimbursement scales. Here's some of the things that stood out to me: Most of the Cadet programs want you to go to an Accelerated school such as ATP or Embry Riddle, they then turn around and hire you as a CFI where you went to school right after you're done to have you as an asset, help you repay your loans from training AND build hours simultaneously. The better Part 121 Cadet programs seem to pay for about 1/4-1/2 of your training expenses. They have Corporate/private jet partners, not just major 121's Key Lime and Empire Air Cargo, as well as a few of the corporate partners can put you in as a Part 91 or 135 PIC in a single seater OR a SIC in a twin seat at anywhere between the 450-1200 Hr Total-Time range, which is really good for the diversity of your flight experience AND your career prospects if you don't want or don't get picked up by one of the major airline's regional feeder programs.

So I've been talking to Flyboy a lot and throwing around the idea of going to flight school myself. The Discovery flights I've done so far my instructors have all said I have the basics down already from the sim; would an accelerated (but very expensive) program like this or ATP make sense for me? I don't think I'd be able to train super extensively in these programs while also sustaining a full time job, that's my primary concern with a lot of them. It'd probably take all 7 days of the week to go from 0 hours to fully licensed in 8-12 months like a lot of them advertise, I can't imagine that leaves any time left available for full time employment

After my 2 years of Ford apprenticeship from 2017 to 2019 I graduated at $13.50 an hour as a journeyman with all my ratings. An old friend now manages the shop we went to school at - the Lube lane kids are on $20/hr now apparently. And great for them !!! Wish it wss that way when i was there. Can't imagine how much a master tech makes.

I'll have to check the FARs but I believe a part-141 registered flight school reduces it down to 1000, and you can have a "Restricted" ATP with your CFI cert as low as 250 or 500 hours(?) . That's what people who start in airmail like FedEx feeder often use. It's a decent job and helps your flight chops a lot while building hours.

Sure wish I could buy a house off of the passion I have for things - maybe I'd have something to show for my miserable useless life lived up to this point. I don't blame people for doing it for the wage, especially if they have the money for the training when the cost of training is so high. Life is crazy for everybody the last 3+ years, the 1500 hour rule is as huge hurdle to overcome if you want to start flying commercially, as well. Lots of shifting factors to consider.

I want to piggy back onto this to back up the point about not discounting support roles: Especially if you have any medically disqualifying ailments but really love aviation- sport piloting or working via aviation in a non med req position like flight dispatching Is a fantastic idea The whole industry is hurting for people right now. I went from 0 RL aviation experience to Part 121 aircraft dispatcher in about 5 months and I'm netting a salary in the 40-60,000/,yr bracket with zero experience in a rural state. Go for it go for it go for it now before the demand curve starts to level out or other people get ahead of you.

HA! That's a good one, Flyboy. I wish it were that easy, trust me. Here's a goofy one I found scrolling through FB looking at race car pictures this morning:

I think I'm firmly in the "Don't have the chops to justify this equipment" stage of flight simming, but I will keep my eye on these, they seem very nice.

I love the blue and pink one!

those are very nice, thanks for sharing To Piggyback with my own recommendations: 1.) Been really learning a lot about GA off of both of these channels. I think AvWeb's stuff is also fantastic.

A okay with that Vonrd. Didnt want to cause any trouble

Probably the MiG-21, that's the only official squadron use module I have currently. F5-E is the only other one I have.

I know this would probably be very difficult with the way it's mapped, so don't waste any time on it if it's too crazy hard; but I was wondering if there would be any option to get my helmet design wrapped onto the pilots helm? Zip file contains proofs and vectors of the design. Ted_helmets (1).7z

I'd be interested to know what you think when you come back, Hotlead, especially considering how well you analyze combat sequences on stream and stuff.

I don't want to be a debbie downer; but despite the fact it looked quite impressive, I just feel like it was okay. Not great, not bad, a bit meh

I will have to try this and see if it helps with my FPS in my Quest II & 1070ti Setup. interesting discussion so far.

I like how stubby and cute they both are. Very interesting aircraft - the engine layout on the Schuckert seems wild.

Just thinking about ruining my Diet: And watching some Fantastic content from The Great War as usual, despite the fact they've moved on from covering WWI Chronologically, the post-WWI era is absolutely fantastic:

Man that one was a ton of fun! I haven't driven the Kunos Maserrati 250F in a few years, it's always amazing how modern handling that car actually is. Am very excited for the Running-through-history championship idea you had for next year, Snaggle! Thanks for the one off events as well!

Accepted a night shift swap this weekend, hoping to be there if I can get enough sleep and wake up early enough No skin preference unless you want to assign something that suits my White + Red + Checkered motif