What are you Pilots going to do when you retire?
Psychophysiological entity
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From: Walton on the Naze Essex.
Reminds me of a record (78) that I used to listen to in the war.
"Old pilots never retire...old pilot never retire...old pilot never retire...they only fade away."
Kina poignant innit?
"Old pilots never retire...old pilot never retire...old pilot never retire...they only fade away."
Kina poignant innit?
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From: Sydney NSW
spend the kids inheritance
At 55yrs old I've just retired. By the time I'd completed training I discovered that the trick of being happy has nothing to do with the job. It could be any job. But to marry, raise kids, build a house, buy a boat, work on a bit of property (land) was the real purpose. Flying is now a chapter that has closed. We've both worked hard Mrs E and myself and prepared for this. My wife has never seen St Helena and we both enjoy sailing. So we'll be off, like a bucket of prawns in a hot sun maybe, but we'll be off. She's my life, not that flying biz. That was just my profession for as long as I was permitted to practice it. Then after I've seen my relatives we'll sail on to the BVI, give the boat a good scrub up, sell it and like the man tinny said, I'll get a job for some grog money.
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From: Earth (just)
Good man enicalyth - sounds like a grand plan - can I charter your wife? Mine hates boats.......
sounds like a 78 alright.... badly scratched hehe!
Old pilots never retire...old pilot never retire...old pilot never retire...
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From: wishing I were over there
furiously trying to design a machine that hands suspicious luke warm coffee over my shoulder at inopportune moments, and taking random annoying instructions over the phone from retired air traffic controllers.........
Psychophysiological entity
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From: Walton on the Naze Essex.
The song was about old soldiers of course. Funny the things you remember about the war.
I don't think I will ever be able to retire. We seem to be spending so much time with the grand kids that it has become like having children again. School runs, homework etc. Problem is that they are all Americans...so far, and I would like more time in the pub at home.
I don't think I will ever be able to retire. We seem to be spending so much time with the grand kids that it has become like having children again. School runs, homework etc. Problem is that they are all Americans...so far, and I would like more time in the pub at home.
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From: Donington, Lincolnshire
Most women I know have a complete horror of having their husbands at home all day, getting under their feet and interfering with their own long-established routines and habits. My mother flatly refuses to allow my father to sit around reading newspapers and watching tv. Two years after retiring from farming, he took back some of land he'd let and is farming it again...
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From: Spain
Say hello to St Helena for me, last there in 87. Go to Ascencion but you need to book first as they can be a bit funny about re supplying there.
Excellent Tuna grounds so take some STRONG line and big hooks, just use feathers to carth them.
Everyone sells their boat at the BVI so you will get a very low price for it there, take it somewhere else to sell.
Excellent Tuna grounds so take some STRONG line and big hooks, just use feathers to carth them.
Everyone sells their boat at the BVI so you will get a very low price for it there, take it somewhere else to sell.
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From: hearth EU
I will certainly not wait til retirement to quit flying, not to become one of those pedantic old guy...
It is my third job already and I intend to have more experience in other fields!
In other words, if you want to fly until retirement, do not think that your life is terminated, there is more interesting things in life than flying
It is my third job already and I intend to have more experience in other fields!
In other words, if you want to fly until retirement, do not think that your life is terminated, there is more interesting things in life than flying
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From: Scottish FIR
Seems like there are growing numbers of pilots NOT planning to go the full distance.
I for one will be bugging out before the big five oh comes around. There is much more to life than just laying in bed trying to recover from crap rosters, four sector days, swallowing crap from an industry that is a stranger to the truth, married to a wife getting pissed off being married to a tired over worked grumpy git, getting up in the middle of the night to go to work, getting up in the middle of the night because my body clock is buggered etc. etc. Ah the money. What money? Pension down the toilet, the rest gone to the mortgage company, bank, taxman and Tesco.
I know some really good fishing spots, and places to sail. Beer to brew, House to paint, garden to dig, social life to live and family to enjoy. All of these things I used to do before flying. Welcome back life
I for one will be bugging out before the big five oh comes around. There is much more to life than just laying in bed trying to recover from crap rosters, four sector days, swallowing crap from an industry that is a stranger to the truth, married to a wife getting pissed off being married to a tired over worked grumpy git, getting up in the middle of the night to go to work, getting up in the middle of the night because my body clock is buggered etc. etc. Ah the money. What money? Pension down the toilet, the rest gone to the mortgage company, bank, taxman and Tesco.
I know some really good fishing spots, and places to sail. Beer to brew, House to paint, garden to dig, social life to live and family to enjoy. All of these things I used to do before flying. Welcome back life
Uncle Pete
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From: Frodsham Cheshire
LOTS of things!
Cruises, short break holidays and weeks away in the US.
Meals at meal times, seeing the kids and grandkids when scheduled.
Voluntary work that I've always wanted to do.
Having a social life.
MP
Cruises, short break holidays and weeks away in the US.
Meals at meal times, seeing the kids and grandkids when scheduled.
Voluntary work that I've always wanted to do.
Having a social life.
MP
What to do?
