Ign.Override...
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Quite correct, all you mention there. And sad facts too.
I live in Argentina, since 1992 and maybe my salary is quite low, by EU and US standards, but by chance, our 2001-2002 devaluation and banking crisis made prices more realistic. Yet we have 25% unemployment here. And our Peso is tied to the US $ for exchange. Dont need to tell you how expensive (for my pesos) it is to get a cup of expresso on layover in Madrid, paid with €...
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The US economy is in shambles. You might end up with Hillary and spend a few more trillions in "assistance" to Iraq and Afghanistan... Let these idiots kill each other and pray 5 times a day, and go to their sex shops every year in Mecca. You got undocumented aliens in the US... ok, here in Tangoland, we get them too, but from Paraguay and Bolivia...
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Here we got Cristina (also wife of our former president), but I know her personally as she was frequent flyer with us, and surprisingly, So. America of the XXIst century will be quite different. But we are extremely concerned about US politics and its economy. We are making quite a bit of advances with soy based ethanol, to counter the $100 barrel of our camel drivers. When oil dries out, in about 2040, their sands will not permit to grow soybeans...
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We always had the 65 age rule here, so was never a problem. I retire finally in November, but even consider flying a private VIP-727 therafter. I am a widower since 5 years ago, with a son who just turned 18 which I financed for a CPL and a Lear rating a few months ago... now to go for a degree, by chance education basically free here. And a daughter 15 years old... not easy to be a single father with kids. By chance I never had other wives and pay alimonies... but in the US, I went through a personal Chapter 7 and lost it all with PanAm in 1991.
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So I will probably fly until they tell me that I dont even qualify for a Class III medical and my Alzheimer will kick-in to prevent me from closing "bus ties" or attempt to put "essential" on "nº 4 generator" in the 727 when I downgrade myself to be F/E...
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Despite my age, I still try to help the young ones to make it in aviation, and I volunteer (for free) teaching aero-club cadets age 14-18. I even manage to get insulted here in Pprune by these "Geeks" who wish to keep their feet on my O2 mask hose... Sorry if my recommendations to them do not suit them.
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As far as I am concerned, these "Nerds" with fATPL can stick-it into "deep freeze"...
Happy contrails