Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Baby steps back to the skies

Finished my requalification (don't think that's a real word ;-) ) ground school today. I am consistent in that I missed the same questions on the final exam I missed last year. Poorly worded questions in my opinion. After I reviewed the question and then thought in an illogical manner, it made sense.

What's next? Well I'm off for a few days. My wife and I were planning on taking my daughter to the North American Autoshow over in Detroit this weekend, but the weather looks like it will be a bit rough. We will decide on Friday. I might ask my wife if I can sneak away to Detroit for the day without them. Not likely as my wife went to school in Lansing and would like to visit for a bit.

I'm going to spend the next few days caring for my daughter and reviewing flight profiles to prepare for the sim.

Baby steps.

3 comments:

  1. Just curious, what is your current take-home pay AFTER taxes and union dues? And how many passengers are you flying in that aircraft?

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  2. Pay after taxes won't be useful as some states have state and federal taxes...some have federal only. I will include on federal taxes, since we all pay those. Last year I made $35,817.71 gross pay...over 10 months as I took the last two months off of work and received no pay. Union dues of $563.35 and Federal Taxes ($4,067.21) I take out at the SINGLE rate...never changed it...if I took out at the Married rate it would be less...will be less this year as I had a kid. Total money in my pocket before all other deductions $31, 187.71 or roughly $3118 per month. If I had worked a FULL 12 months I would have earned an estimated $42,980 based on the pervious 10 month earnings before taxes and Union Dues.

    I am paid that rate to fly 50 passengers around.

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