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Posted: 6/19/2017 7:03:21 PM EDT

Going into my 29th year of airline flying, I always swore to myself I wasn't going to chase money, or equipment. After commuting for 10 years I was never, EVER, EVER going to commute again.

I must have hit my head or something, because I made a deal with the devil and took the first captain bid I could hold at my current shop. I just signed up to commute to LGA, to be a couple from the bottom on reserve, on the 737. And I was just starting to feel pretty comfortable in the airbus.

God help me, what have I done..

Posted: 6/19/2017 7:25:33 PM EDT

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Going into my 29th year of airline flying, I always swore to myself I wasn't going to chase money, or equipment. After commuting for 10 years I was never, EVER, EVER going to commute again.

I must have hit my head or something, because I made a deal with the devil and took the first captain bid I could hold at my current shop. I just signed up to commute to LGA, to be a couple from the bottom on reserve, on the 737. And I was just starting to feel pretty comfortable in the airbus.

God help me, what have I done..

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Congrats. I think.

Posted: 6/19/2017 9:18:27 PM EDT

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What airline? When do you turn 65?

Posted: 6/19/2017 9:41:38 PM EDT

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That must have been a really bad fall. Better go see a doc.

Posted: 6/19/2017 9:54:43 PM EDT

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Might want to get oxygen

Posted: 6/19/2017 10:06:56 PM EDT

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Congrats. I think.

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Thanks, I'm still trying to decide if I should be celebrating, or crying. After the "lost decade" of US airline careers, it was just too much $$ to leave laying on the table.

I think the plan is for us just to move someplace that's an easy commute to NY. Since my future is there or MIA, if I ever want any seniority.

Posted: 6/19/2017 10:36:03 PM EDT

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Jeebus. Commuting to NYC to sit reserve one off the plug.

What other masochistic tendencies do you have?

Posted: 6/19/2017 11:57:17 PM EDT

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What airline? When do you turn 65?

Double A, I turned 50 this month. I'm hoping to retire at 63, but we'll see how that works out.

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Jeebus. Commuting to NYC to sit reserve one off the plug.

What other masochistic tendencies do you have?

Short call for the foreseeable future too

but someone has to be on the bottom, right?

I'd love to be the bottom WB fo in my current base, but sadly, I'm still thousands of numbers away from that. Hell, I'm still thousands of numbers away from WB of in most of our bases.

Posted: 6/20/2017 11:19:36 AM EDT

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Congratulations, I guess.

Posted: 6/20/2017 11:25:25 AM EDT

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Thanks, I'm still trying to decide if I should be celebrating, or crying. After the "lost decade" of US airline careers, it was just too much $ to leave laying on the table.

I think the plan is for us just to move someplace that's an easy commute to NY. Since my future is there or MIA, if I ever want any seniority.

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My career goal is to be the most senior FO on the most junior equipment at a major airline.

Posted: 6/20/2017 2:57:35 PM EDT

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Thanks, I'm still trying to decide if I should be celebrating, or crying. After the "lost decade" of US airline careers, it was just too much $ to leave laying on the table.

I think the plan is for us just to move someplace that's an easy commute to NY. Since my future is there or MIA, if I ever want any seniority.

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May I suggest northeast PA? Lots of weekly commuters to New York City in my area. We could use some more Arfcommers around here.

Not too far away from me there was a long-time Pan Am captain that had his own airfield and flew to work and back.

Posted: 6/20/2017 3:19:57 PM EDT

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May I suggest northeast PA? Lots of weekly commuters to New York City in my area. We could use some more Arfcommers around here.

Not too far away from me there was a long-time Pan Am captain that had his own airfield and flew to work and back.

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Actually, thats #1 in the running right now. I know a lot of our guys that live in Bucks county. I think we are going to wait and see how long it takes me to hold MIA. Neither of us want to live in the winter anymore. But we'll do whatever we need to, for the best QOL.

Posted: 6/20/2017 9:51:10 PM EDT

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My career goal is to be the most senior FO on the most junior equipment at a major airline.

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I have a friend that did that with WN. Eventually he was forced to upgrade after passing on it for almost a decade.

Posted: 6/21/2017 5:34:11 PM EDT

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I've been thinking of bidding out of the CRJ and onto the E175. It would require a commute from SLC to BOI where we're opening a new domicile. I'd hopefully move to BOI in a year or two. 17 years in the CRJ and I'm suffering from "boredom" you might say... Not much more money, a commute, and a lot more time away from home, but I'm still thinking about it. I must be stupid.

Posted: 6/21/2017 9:47:03 PM EDT

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I've been thinking of bidding out of the CRJ and onto the E175. It would require a commute from SLC to BOI where we're opening a new domicile. I'd hopefully move to BOI in a year or two. 17 years in the CRJ and I'm suffering from "boredom" you might say... Not much more money, a commute, and a lot more time away from home, but I'm still thinking about it. I must be stupid.

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I know how you feel, I used to get bored after a few years on an airplane. This will be my 10th long tern training, and I'm kinda getting over the whole thing. But I'd still be ready for a change after 17 years on the same airplane. I flew with guys who had close to 20,000 hours on the MD80, I would have been on suicide watch after that long.

The only reason I bid captain was for the money. It's literally a HUUGE raise. At this point in my career, I couldn't leave the dollars laying on the table. The commuting to reserve is gonna suck royally, but we'll make it work.

Posted: 6/21/2017 11:23:48 PM EDT

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IMHO VNAV on the 73-8 sucked donkey dick.

Posted: 6/21/2017 11:53:35 PM EDT

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I get to fly with my favorite FO

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I love international.

Posted: 6/22/2017 6:28:42 AM EDT

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Thanks, I'm still trying to decide if I should be celebrating, or crying. After the "lost decade" of US airline careers, it was just too much $ to leave laying on the table.

I think the plan is for us just to move someplace that's an easy commute to NY. Since my future is there or MIA, if I ever want any seniority.

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Congrats. I think.

Thanks, I'm still trying to decide if I should be celebrating, or crying. After the "lost decade" of US airline careers, it was just too much $ to leave laying on the table.

I think the plan is for us just to move someplace that's an easy commute to NY. Since my future is there or MIA, if I ever want any seniority.

If you move and live anywhere near NYC you will spend all that extra money on increased cost of living.

Live someplace with hourly service and sit long call from home or drive from rural PA

Posted: 6/22/2017 7:52:18 AM EDT

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If you move and live anywhere near NYC you will spend all that extra money on increased cost of living.

Live someplace with hourly service and sit long call from home or drive from rural PA

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That's the plan. Actually the best case scenario is I get down to MIA, we pull chocks and move down there. If things stay with historical norms, 6 months or so before I can hold that. I'm afraid it's going to be at least that long before I can hold long call in LGA. Plus neither of us really want to live anywhere that has real winter again.

The 73 is kind of a wild card over here now. After the merger, not many of the long time bus people want anything to do with the Boeing, along with PBS forcing junior people to work every weekend and holiday, it's been going really junior. I'm just hoping it stays that way. Since if you look up junior in the dictionary, my picture is in there.

Posted: 6/22/2017 10:32:05 AM EDT

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IMHO VNAV on the 73-8 sucked donkey dick.

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Understatement of the century.

Posted: 6/22/2017 5:54:47 PM EDT

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I get to fly with my favorite FO

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I love international.

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I get to fly with my favorite FO

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I love international.

I'd love it too, if only I could hold it

I'd be one hell of a food boy.

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IMHO VNAV on the 73-8 sucked donkey dick.

Understatement of the century.

I think that's pretty much every VNAV flying today.

Posted: 6/28/2017 10:45:30 PM EDT

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I know how you feel, I used to get bored after a few years on an airplane. This will be my 10th long tern training, and I'm kinda getting over the whole thing. But I'd still be ready for a change after 17 years on the same airplane. I flew with guys who had close to 20,000 hours on the MD80, I would have been on suicide watch after that long.

The only reason I bid captain was for the money. It's literally a HUUGE raise. At this point in my career, I couldn't leave the dollars laying on the table. The commuting to reserve is gonna suck royally, but we'll make it work.

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I've been thinking of bidding out of the CRJ and onto the E175. It would require a commute from SLC to BOI where we're opening a new domicile. I'd hopefully move to BOI in a year or two. 17 years in the CRJ and I'm suffering from "boredom" you might say... Not much more money, a commute, and a lot more time away from home, but I'm still thinking about it. I must be stupid.

I know how you feel, I used to get bored after a few years on an airplane. This will be my 10th long tern training, and I'm kinda getting over the whole thing. But I'd still be ready for a change after 17 years on the same airplane. I flew with guys who had close to 20,000 hours on the MD80, I would have been on suicide watch after that long.

The only reason I bid captain was for the money. It's literally a HUUGE raise. At this point in my career, I couldn't leave the dollars laying on the table. The commuting to reserve is gonna suck royally, but we'll make it work.

Congrats on the upgrade! I know you'll be spending a lot of time in LGA, but if you are going to be flying more out of EWR or can pull off the drive, there are a ton of pilots of various airlines living out in eastern PA. Taxes and laws are better than Jersey. I live in the Lehigh Valley and it's 1:00-1:10 to EWR. Going to LGA on a reserve call out might be rough, but if you'll eventually be a lineholder, it's something to think about.

Posted: 6/28/2017 11:51:44 PM EDT

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Congrats on the left seat.

Posted: 6/29/2017 11:35:43 AM EDT

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Congratulations.

Give me a call or IM sometime, and I'll show you all around the MIA area.

Posted: 6/29/2017 11:52:37 AM EDT

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I'd love it too, if only I could hold it

I'd be one hell of a food boy.

I think that's pretty much every VNAV flying today.

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I get to fly with my favorite FO

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I love international.

I'd love it too, if only I could hold it

I'd be one hell of a food boy.

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IMHO VNAV on the 73-8 sucked donkey dick.

Understatement of the century.

I think that's pretty much every VNAV flying today.

It honestly isn't that bad, as long as you know the tricks, never trust it, and do your part.
It works good on the approaches, long as you remember "path" and set the m/a alt.

Posted: 6/29/2017 8:49:48 PM EDT

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Congrats! Im sure you will fly with some folks I know.

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