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Our country is currently being run by DNC leftist elites. So really it won't matter at all to them if they have Dementia Joe Stalin or some other braindead numbnuts (e.g. Kamala, Gavin, etc) in office as POTUS. As long as the puppet installed falls in line, all is good for the leftist and haters of our country. I can bitch and moan with the best of us, but I'm usually a pretty optimistic guy. This election concerns me regardless of who is elected. Four more years of DNC rule and we'll be totally finished as a nation. But, if Trump wins we know there's going to be madness. The lefts propensity to destroy, riot, and kill when they lose will be on full display. Unless lawmakers enable law enforcement to actually keep and enforce order, it could get ugly.

Everything is cyclic, can’t count on anything but the “guarantee” and even that isn’t “guaranteed” by any means whenever a black swan event occurs. Some kill it and others fear the job will be killed off and sometimes it does go flat line - oddly enough it can happen at the same time being pax or cargo high and lows. Those anomalies aren’t controlled by any of us, but one can capitalize on such events being at the right place at the right time. That being said, having a job then seniority is everything! The previous data points mentioned are awesome regarding the hustle and it seems in recent times FOs in greater numbers have finally started to figure out the lucrative initiatives they can capitalize on while keeping their lives very comfortable schedule wise. I myself maintain super senior FO and never miss any holidays or important events my wife and I enjoy. Somewhat different at some outfits and everyone’s priorities are different. Some enjoy specific day/night flying, domestic/international, weekends off or not, short runs, longer runs for extended time off, etc. Pay is the predominant priority followed by high pay least amount of work which is desirable. As a crew force we need to understand what drives us individually and know what serves one doesn’t fit the other. When most start out they aren’t high earners so the chase for cash rides high and as time moves forward for the majority. Cash flows increase and your work life still burns, but hopefully seniority increases giving you more flexibility to create a better and better schedule opportunity. Good example of right time right place or wrong place is within the cargo industry currently. Overstaffed Purple with new impact management, UPS hiring for USPS contract good movement for a short period perhaps and Atlas driving away from low profit margin cargo and realignment to the higher profit large cargo aircraft focus. As a senior FO at Atlas I am fortunate (which is a guess by the numbers) to maintain my current lifestyle with little or no impacts which honestly remains to be seen from the actual fallout vs projected musical chairs. Unfortunately there will be those newish Capts falling back to the right seat, crews pushed out the bottom of their bases to less desirable bases and worst of all having lived in a disappearing base where they chose to reside for that lifestyle. Some will sit in current positions maintaining current pay while others will receive increases as well while they sit thru the transition. Definitely a Yes vote from me = All in all it’s a good move to keep folks off the street or at least give them a breather to end up where they intended to be initially. Even if I had moved to left seat in 2016 this really would not have impacted me that much regarding seniority. Regardless of this current event and I was a Capt from 2016 I couldn’t get near the schedules, high paying lines and overtime if I so choose. I can match or exceed at times equivalent Capts with no heartache currently. During the viral debacle I could chase the extremely lucrative lines right down to the last areas of 175% payouts when they dwindled away while Capts within my same year group earned quite a bit less picking up the low hanging fruit. Senior Capts made out like bandits during that anamoly . Seniority is key! No lie there were just a few tuff days every few months BUT - Something to be said about if your work doesn’t feel like work you will never have to work another day in your life. It’s your life and if you’re happy stay put and do your thing!

At the end of the day, this is all that matters.

Must be the hazardous duty pay they provide. All of those near CFITs, control tower strikes, plus departures from NOTAM’d runways and all…

Pretty sure this should include an affiliation disclosure to the linked website and proof it passed an I’m not a robot test.

Whatever you’re smoking…yes, please! Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile app

Actually, the other pilot, Mark Peterson, flew the display. He's a lm excellent display pilot and also flies the P-51 and Alpha Jet displays. And yes, it's a hoot to fly. Sounds like a T-38, not a Tweet.

Why stay a day past 20 if you do take it and not go to the ARC? Only passing up seniority at the next really flying job and more money that you’ll be making after the AF. Even if they offered me continuation to 24, I wouldn’t stay a day past 20 and I’d walk at 19 years 9 months to start terminal leave and never look back.

Don't let anyone walk in on you watching this. They will question your manhood. However, dont be afraid to shed man tears 😢 while alone and wasted.

Huggy's A-37 demo at Hill AFB, starts at 1:34. Makes for an excellent flying display.

Second this 1000%. If you are not stuck on fighters I would apply to every single heavy unit you'd be interested in as well. Will only help your chances.

And, despite the fact we've literally already seen what a Trump presidency looks like, *this time* it's going to be way worse and democracy is at risk because he's going to be a king! Yawn.

Wait, a human can have multiple views on a variety of topics and other humans can agree with a subset of those views without endorsing all of them? Do better