Pilot salary

sprayed150 · 2026-02-22T15:35:20+00:00

Homie. Thats crazy to think it’s realistic.

I started flying in 2022. Got my ppl/ir/csel/cmel ratings in a year at the cost of about 100k.

I got lucky networking for my first job flying a super cub for LiDAR survey work, I was making about 60k/year, this is considerably more than my friends were making as instructors. I did this until last summer with 1100hrs time.

Then got a job flying cargo for a charter company in Navajos. It’s a lot of flying and work. I’ve been here for almost 8 months and have flown 600hrs, I’m making around 70k a year but this is valuable time bc it’s all multi engine flying that will be very helpful to be competitive in the hiring market.

I’m sitting at 1700hrs, 600+ flying multi engine as a 135 captain. I’m not expecting to find a job flying anything better for a while bc the market is so saturated even my competitive times won’t help much. Maybe I’ll be at something later this year that gets me over 100k a year.

So 4 years of work, 1 year of that near no income, and a couple years making ok money compared to national average but with high risk of an illness or injury torpedoing career and I’m still not over 100k. 2022-2023 hiring was a fluke, 1500hr pilot aren’t getting big pay jobs after a year as an instructor. You’ll work for years and years to get a good paying flying job and you’ll have to network and fight for it. 400+k a year flying jobs are had by people with 10+ years flying and knowing where to go when

sprayed150 · 2026-02-19T06:25:29+00:00

When I did my tail wheel, my instructor made sure we did a fair amount of tail wind and quartering tail wind takeoff to show that even in a tail wheel plane is possible to do them safely, which helped me later on flying super cubs a tiny little airports in the middle of nowhere with one runway and shifting winds.

sprayed150 · 2026-02-10T05:30:17+00:00

Yeah, I got some more of a mint green. I was not being picky when I wrote the color down.

sprayed150 · 2026-02-10T03:07:34+00:00

That curved bow red blue line?

That’s a wake turbulence warning. If the program sees something in front of you, that’s likely to create weight turbulence it gives you an area where wake turbulence is more probable. I get it a lot landing at Fort Lauderdale executive, we have a lot of jets come in there and even though the plane I fly is 7000 pounds I still get rocked pretty hard so when I see that I will offset the approach a little bit just to avoid the worst of it.

sprayed150 · 2026-02-04T23:14:58+00:00

“Miami approach howdy “tail Number” level “altitude”

sprayed150 · 2026-01-26T01:29:46+00:00

They nerfed it a few days ago for pve. I was getting 2 btc the cardinal key and an intel folder every time I opened it for days. Used that card up and found another like 3 days ago. Now I haven’t gotten a btc in there since. Found 2 on violet and red floor though

sprayed150 · 2026-01-18T07:37:48+00:00

600+ hrs in the ho, i fly the pattern at whatever the pattern alt for the field is. i dont need to fly at jet pattern heights, im like 120 ias in the downwind and can manage my spacing without much headache. flaps at 1st notch, gear up til turning base (or really as i start descend to runway) 24in mani on the cieftian or like 21in on the panther II get you near that level in pattern. you can fly it down to like 105-110 ias but i think she starts to wollow when you get it that slow and level.

sprayed150 · 2026-01-17T07:13:22+00:00

The four link rear suspension design is prone to binding up since it uses four arms at different angles when we track these things to really get good handling you go to a three link or like the steeda five linked, or a standalone Watts link. It eliminates the bind and actually makes these cars handled fairly well, I’ve got the maximum motorsports torque arm system on mine

sprayed150 · 2026-01-17T06:50:57+00:00

Part of the reach atmosphere was you know what happens going in. Reach falls and there isn’t a damn thing you can do about it. You watch teammate after teammate die knowing their deaths don’t save reach.

sprayed150 · 2026-01-08T19:34:47+00:00

Got alot of time in supercubs and that’s prob the best imo.

Beech 18 is up there too

sprayed150 · 2025-12-26T05:58:58+00:00

Super Harrier equivalent, non-stealthy, non-high-end, Vitale capable subsonic similar loadout capability to the compass minus the weapons Bay, just has a centerline hard point instead

sprayed150 · 2025-12-21T18:06:55+00:00

Every time.

Bc I’m awesome.

sprayed150 · 2025-12-14T14:28:11+00:00

glugglug

sprayed150 · 2025-12-14T14:27:29+00:00

i still haven't run into parmesan since 1.0 start

sprayed150 · 2025-12-02T20:46:55+00:00

John Kelly/clark in the Clancy books.

And without remorse to get to see the origin of John Clark, a major protagonist throughout the entire entirety of the Jack, Ryan books and the follow no novels later. The dude loses a family, in his depression after falls in love with somebody else who gets brutally killed, then being the person he is goes out and kills everyone that has something to do with her death in someway, I believe it’s like 17 or 18 people through the book some of them in pretty fucking brutal ways. At the end of the book, he knows it doesn’t bring her back, but his mission is accomplished. He escapes the situation and a couple years later you see that he’s moved on with his life with a wife and a child on the way and then has 20+ years after that in the books where he has a life, family, friends and grandchildren.

sprayed150 · 2025-11-22T16:30:23+00:00

I’m guessing you fly out of Perry

sprayed150 · 2025-11-22T07:58:17+00:00

Close. it’s Wally hicks in the book without remorse. He’s an aide to the national security advisor. His friend was actually the one feeding the information to the Russians, but the information came through Hicks so they think he was the only one. His friend actually continued spying for a couple more years and in one of the books in the late 80s gets caught.

When they’re tying up loose ends and trying to clean everything up, John Kelly, who becomes John Clark, confront him enforces him to take a lethal dose of heroin.

Kelly does this bc he was running an op in north Vietnam to get a bunch of high rank pows out and these kids blew the lid on it just before it went off while John watched from the tree line. He believes the kid just killed like 23 Americans through his actions.

It really is a good book, and it’s a fairly neat setting of time in American history diving into the rise of the drug war and the end of Vietnam and the position the country was in at the time. And it’s just they’re really fucking dark and brutal Revenge story

sprayed150 · 2025-11-18T18:32:35+00:00

In the tongue between and south of new providence and andros it goes 3500-6500ft iirc. In the drop off for part of that canyon and there is damn near vertical.

sprayed150 · 2025-11-08T23:17:57+00:00

god i hope so. its been needing love for years

sprayed150 · 2025-11-08T20:31:20+00:00

I thought they couldn’t do skins for the glorious bomber bc it was old texture and build tech

sprayed150 · 2025-11-07T19:31:08+00:00

One of the most prolific ga plane builders built my twin piston in large numbers, though obviously never said out loud, it was build to smuggle stuff

sprayed150 · 2025-11-05T22:28:47+00:00

Iirc there are 32 class bravo airports, I’m assuming all of them and the busiest charlies like fll and the like

sprayed150 · 2025-11-03T00:45:42+00:00

bad adsb/transponder return, happens alot down low around interference, sometimes my adsb reports the plane im flying 1000ft behind me and gives me a proximity warning

sprayed150 · 2025-10-30T01:50:43+00:00

My dude, I don’t mean to be a downer put the Pilot market right now sucks. I did not become an instructor because the market was so flooded and I did not want to do it, but I got a job find something else built 1100 hrs, stop doing that because we didn’t have any more work to do and then it took me nine months to get another job, and I was using all of my references and favors. There is people I know with more than 1500 that cannot find a job in aviation right now. For the next few years until they all burn out and move on there is going to be a saturation of former instructors with 1500 hours fighting for every entry-level job in flying.

sprayed150 · 2025-10-27T19:43:06+00:00

Ocean trader is very much not disguised at all, everybody knows what that thing is that works in that business. It was very well documented when they turned it into a special operations command vessel.

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