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  1. e6bflyer

    The SHOW: Airlines still a "good gig"??

    One of our FOs wiped the overhead panel of a China Southern plane with a sani com and posted it online. Orange. Gross. Sorry for the semi necro post. Haven’t been here in months.
  2. e6bflyer

    AMEX Platinum

    Just got my notice 10 months after my official retirement date that I will owe the annual fee in January. Think I am going to just close it. I do like the bennies, but it isn't worth 450 a year considering the phenomenal travel benefits I already get. Maybe when we are sans kids and travel a...
  3. e6bflyer

    AMEX Platinum

    Other than my pilot luggage, I am pretty much incognito. I could see how going in partial uniform or telling them that you don't have a boarding pass because you are jumpseating may raise some eyebrows. My philosophy is to remain as off the radar as possible to keep a good deal going.
  4. e6bflyer

    AMEX Platinum

    That is exactly what I have seen in Vegas. Of course, I don't tell them I am an airline employee (they have never asked). I dress conservatively, present a security document that says "proceed to gate for seat assignment", usually on my phone. They scan it and say "welcome back, Ashley is the...
  5. e6bflyer

    AMEX Platinum

    Wink, I noticed that they recently put on the club entry rules for the Centurion Lounge, "Note: Passengers holding standby tickets and non-revenue standby passengers, including airline or industry employees traveling on discounted tickets, are not eligible to utilize the lounge unless they have...
  6. e6bflyer

    AMEX Platinum

    Bummer. I am still enjoying the post retirement bennies. I am sure it is all coming to an end soon.
  7. e6bflyer

    UAVs, not just an Air Force gig anymore

    Quite true, especially if you consider the Marines part of the Navy component. We have "leaders" who want their battle star promotion, throwing our people and equipment into the fray to support silly requirements that we made up for ourselves (2.0 carrier requirement, etc). No isn't in their...
  8. e6bflyer

    Changes to retirement passes first hurdle.

    Haven't posted here in a while, but this thread is full of differing opinions, many based on zero perspective. A bit about me: Retired O-4, 20 years and 26 days. Prior enlisted. Transitioned to airline career. A wife and four kids. The BAH system is as fair as its gonna be. Is it perfect? No...
  9. e6bflyer

    Free liquor when flying in economy? Yes please!

    Southwest has free liquor too. Three days a year...Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day (Luv Day), and St. Paddy's. It's actually on the menu in fine print. And HAL, I have been drinking the water out of Boeing Springs for 12 years, and I am strong like ox. Don't be scared, brother!
  10. e6bflyer

    Why are you Leaving?

    Two of each. Unbelievable in this day and age, but it was the norm in central Florida (grew up in a small town between Orlando and Daytona) in 1991. I think the practice came to an end soon thereafter. At least I hope. Looking back, I can't fucking believe it was an accepted practice, but it...
  11. e6bflyer

    Why are you Leaving?

    As Villanelle so aptly stated above, there is zero we can do at this point to further our minority and woman folk recruiting. All that Diversity, Inc does at this point is create undertones of racism and sexism because now everyone is wondering if super awesome black lady admiral is there...
  12. e6bflyer

    Navy HR Contacting IRR Folks...

    Perfect example of why pilots have labor unions. The company would have probably thrown the baby out with the bath water. Easier to hire and train a new pilot than to pay and then work with him or her to rehabilitate into a flying status. The union provides a medical rep, legal help, mutual aid...
  13. e6bflyer

    Navy HR Contacting IRR Folks...

    Fortunately, the major airlines have taken steps to insulate against that as well. We will essentially get two paid years here prior to being thrown out on the street. Some of that is sick pay, some is the company's loss of license, and some of it is through the union. It is nice to have that...
  14. e6bflyer

    Navy HR Contacting IRR Folks...

    Flash, I am getting a sense of anger/jealousy towards CNATRA/VR SELRES that maybe haven't been "feeling the pain" like the rest if their reserve brethren. Please correct me if I am wrong. I think you fail to realize the level of training, commitment, and true need that those SELRES billets fill...
  15. e6bflyer

    Navy HR Contacting IRR Folks...

    Dunno, man. I am admittedly an outsider, but I think that by 1. Saying yes to these bs requests and 2. Pushing them on selected reserves, big Navy is missing the big picture here. I think this is going to have a huge effect on the reserve force that is just not conditioned to being treated this...
  16. e6bflyer

    Navy HR Contacting IRR Folks...

    Rumor de jour from all the Selres guys here in airline world is that guys are dropping like flies into IRR due to the number of 12 month vacations being handed out. Any troof to that? If so, that is a real shame and a failure of reserve leadership, IMO. Yes, the law protects your jobby job, but...
  17. e6bflyer

    Why are you Leaving?

    I am friends with a current Whidbey SAR guy and some of the stuff he does (not just for the navy, but for the local community that depends on them) is incredible. They regularly pluck guys off of mountaintops that would have otherwise died. He has been hosted in Olympia by the governor and...
  18. e6bflyer

    TACAMO E-6 Lifestyle?

    Only doing the coastal mission for the last 3 years has been really nice. I went to Offutt to stand alert 1 time, which is the polar opposite of my JO tour when my crew (we were hard crewed at the time) had the Offutt month rotation. Endure, brother. Life gets better when you can look back on...
  19. e6bflyer

    TACAMO E-6 Lifestyle?

    Erroneous on many counts, but I like your positive spin on it. Are you in training as a Tacamo NFO? If so, come back and revisit this thread in a few years for a good laugh. Tacamo messages the whole triad. The ruse that we can survive a nuclear war with our command and control intact is...
  20. e6bflyer

    CNO:FLEET to be SPARED

    I love it when you remind us all that you have a much broader understanding of how executive level decisions are made. :rolleyes: Cynicism breeds critical thought. I hope your ready room has its cynics and I hope they feel comfortable enough to speak their minds when it is appropriate.
  21. e6bflyer

    Living on The Boat

    Saw them onload 5,000 live lobsters in San Diego. Went to dinner that night hoping for the best and it was terrible. Way overcooked, like boiled to death. Crab legs...same thing. Rubbery, nasty, can't even crack the shell because it gives so much. Rock lobster tails...rubber balls. No, wait...
  22. e6bflyer

    Living on The Boat

    Just talk to the other dudes on the boat. They will tell you what to bring. Some of my personal favorites: X-Box Flat screen TV Robe Shower shoes Shower caddy to carry your crap in A fan for white noise Bluetooth speaker Memory foam mattress topper Your own sheets, pillow, and blanket (this...
  23. e6bflyer

    Living on The Boat

    We always lost money at sea. Generally to the tune of $50 a month. Supposedly we were paying an extra $10 a month for Starbucks coffee and tazo tea. I did the math and I am pretty sure we could have put a Starbucks in a conex box and put it in the hangar bay for what we were paying. The coffee...
  24. e6bflyer

    Living on The Boat

    DO NOT LIVE ON THE BOAT Get a room, an apartment, something. We had a shooter live on the boat. He was miserable. I mean absolutely miserable. When we went into the yards, he got a paid room in the Q, but the whole rest of the time he was stuck on the boat with airman Timmy, going down to the...
  25. e6bflyer

    New Primary Track Select Option (Tailhook minus all the Jet-Guy Douchenozzlery)

    Man, what a great idea. Someone should get an award for that. I wonder where they got that from? Oh yeah, that's right, they got it from 2007 when it was that way before the good idea genie started the "Tailhook" thing.
  26. e6bflyer

    Why are you Leaving?

    Amen. My reason for leaving summed up in one sentence.
  27. e6bflyer

    THIS is what I REALLY fly! (That's an E-6B, not EA-6B!)

    That photo was taken at Cecil when we took the airplanes down there to have the cockpits ripped apart and the 737 displays put in. The tail wouldn't fit in the hangar so it was removed and the plane was put in sideways. When we got the planes back they didn't work at all. Eleven years later and...
  28. e6bflyer

    THIS is what I REALLY fly! (That's an E-6B, not EA-6B!)

    Thanks. We chatted about the good and the bad. This community has its ugly side, but three years in the training command and two years on the boat taught me that it is a pretty good place to be. I have been gone six months, so my information is getting less relevant by the day, but anyone who...
  29. e6bflyer

    Officer Dynamics in a Flying Squadron

    Oh man. So true. I went from the E-6 community where some of the flight engineers are on a first name basis with the JOs to VT land with no E's to the boat where E's pin themselves to the bulkhead and wait for you to go through knee knockers. When I would bring my guys in the gear pit a...
  30. e6bflyer

    Stupid Questions about Naval Aviation (Part 3)

    This is how civilian aviation works:
  31. e6bflyer

    AMEX Platinum

    Yep. My airline is AA (shocking, I know, I haven't always worked for SWA) and I ordered 2 $100 gift cards last month and they were both reimbursed. I always check flyertalk right before I do it just to make sure. They have threads dedicated to this very practice for each airline. Now I have $400...
  32. e6bflyer

    Military Medical Counts for FAA

    You need to be able to prove it on the spot or else you are going to get a letter and have some splainin' to do. Just carry a copy with your license when you fly. There is nothing worse than working with the FAA to resolve an issue quickly.
  33. e6bflyer

    Why are you Leaving?

    Tax free to take a shitty set of orders? Bwahahahaha. F that. There are plenty of "root cause" issues that need to be worked out. Right now they are offering DHs $125,000 to stay in and they are getting out in droves. Money isn't going to solve this one. Shorter deployments. Make officers...
  34. e6bflyer

    Why are you Leaving?

    This hit the nail on the head. Big picture...this is the problem.
  35. e6bflyer

    The SHOW: Airlines still a "good gig"??

    I scored one of those from the Bradley Airport Hyatt. It is the crown jewel of my fledgling collection. My family also appreciates the awesome little bottles of shampoo and conditioner that adorn our showers now.
  36. e6bflyer

    Uniform at a Wedding

    Uniform...yes. Whatever the bride wants you to wear. Leave the sword at home. Over the top, tacky, and inappropriate. The only time I have ever seen the swords come out (not metaphorically) is during wedding sword arches done for photos, the resulting photos afterword, friends drinking too much...
  37. e6bflyer

    ATP Multi Engine Changes - Do it now!

    It is company dependent. The FARs count flight time as any time the aircraft is under movement with the intent to fly. The military counts flight time as takeoff power applied to touchdown. A common practice to make up for that discrepancy is to add .3 of taxi time to each sortie. Some use .2...
  38. e6bflyer

    Career Reflections by Pickle

    I will pile up to the advice above. The boat is the most depressing place on the planet to live. Don't do it. You will be a mile from your car in a place you hate all the time. If you have to geo bach (everyone does it for different reasons, you and the Mrs just need to evaluate yours), then be...
  39. e6bflyer

    Cancel Cable or sign new contract

    I was at $225 a month for the bundle. That included the whole house deal where you could DVR 8 shows at once and watch them from any tv. I called cox and told them I was quitting to see what they would offer, the best they could do was free HBO for 3 months. No thanks. They still send me flyers...
  40. e6bflyer

    Cancel Cable or sign new contract

    I ditched cable and upped my internet sub by $20 three years ago. I don't miss it one bit. I have a wife and four young kids. They were a bit miffed at first, but when I showed them all the options available to watch shows, they were all on board. I pay for Netflix, Hulu, and buy about $30-$40...
  41. e6bflyer

    Disassociated Sea Tour

    My advice? Do what you want and whatever makes you happy. Look for weird, off the path stuff. You are going to be fodder for any board after taking NROTC orders. That my sound harsh, but with the abysmal selection rates in the last few years, you would be chasing a brass ring for nothing but...
  42. e6bflyer

    Hey you boatable people...what do you (or did you) do on the boat for leisure?

    Ah yes, forgot everyone's favorite pastime, my tears made great lube.
  43. e6bflyer

    Hey you boatable people...what do you (or did you) do on the boat for leisure?

    Circa 2010, the Shooters did the following: We had 4 xboxes wired together in Shooter Alley which later grew to four catapult and arresting gear work centers and a ready room via some drug deals and late night cable routing. We would regularly have 20 people throughout the boat playing COD. We...
  44. e6bflyer

    When did the Helo Committment change from 6 to 8 years?

    VP and TACAMO were both 7. That is a fact. I thought (maybe just my senior citizen memory) that E-2 and COD were also 7 back in the day day. It was only a few years ago that they combined them into "Tailhook" from VT selection. I thought it was just Strike (J1/J2) that incurred the 8 years of...
  45. e6bflyer

    FY-15 ADHSB

    Pickle, The boat is a tiebreaker. There are some dudes who can go there and break out (mostly FOs) prior to the board and that's great. Most won't. Same with your O-4 fitrep there. Most leave with one competitive look and it's usually a P or maybe a MP. I wouldn't sweat it just because there are...
  46. e6bflyer

    When did the Helo Committment change from 6 to 8 years?

    What you are seeing now is, in my opinion, an unintended consequence of that policy. You have guys sticking around longer because they are out of options. It is tough to get any job, and especially a flying job, coming off a 2 year disassociated gig. Dudes used to be able to roll from shore duty...
  47. e6bflyer

    When did the Helo Committment change from 6 to 8 years?

    I was a summer 2000 ROTC grad and mine said 7 years. As I recall, it was in 2001 that they changed it.
  48. e6bflyer

    FY-15 ADHSB

    Great advice above. There are tons of people hiring right now. Start your networking fu going. If you have half a brain and at least one brain cell with social skills, you will get a good paying job. Talk to your friends and see what they are doing. I was highly considering a non flying career...
  49. e6bflyer

    O-4 List out (last year)

    I worked harder on my normal track shore duty than a lot of people do on sea duty. Our respective communities decide for us what the track to success is. If one follows that track and has the performance to match, then it should be safely assumed they will, at the very least, make the next rank...
  50. e6bflyer

    FY-15 ADHSB

    There are only a few people that know the answer to that question, and they are all sworn to secrecy. This is another epic screw up in the "NAE" and their effort to retain talent. If this does not send a loud message, I don't know what does. The sad thing is that there are real people behind...
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