On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:34:00 GMT, Mike Marron
wrote:

Jack wrote:
Mike Marron wrote:

Answer: A pilot bud whom happens to be quite a bit older than me
used to fly the F-4S off carriers and now flies 767's for Delta....

...still earns over $4000 per month....

That would be per _week_, MM.

Nope, according to him it's only 4K per mo. But that's by choice since
it seems he's almost always off-duty playing with his toys and doing
other stuff. Don't get me wrong, he once showed me an offer in writing
that a real estate agent gave for one of his properties in Southern
California. No doubt the guy is a millionaire, but he deeply hates
his job as would I if I flew for the airlines in this day and age.
Moolah's nice, but it ain't everything.

Sorry, Mike, but if your bud is telling the truth about flying 76's
for Delta, he's doing $4K/week not month. Not even the yesterday hire
FE on a Fokker is making as little as$48K/year.

Old F-105 bud of mine just retired (mandatory) last year from Delta
after flying 747-400s. I asked him how he was doing and he said he'd
been making $350-375K/yr, but he did weekend and holiday standby
reserve which paid double-time so he tweaked his annual up closer to
$450K.

If you can say "no doubt the guy is a millionaire" you probably gotta
recognize he didn't get there on $48K/yr.

Unless he's paying alimony to several trophies....

Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8