Life after airline flying

[Dudley Do Right]

What did you do after you left flying? Which skills were you able to transfer?

[VinRouge]

Originally Posted by Dudley Do Right

What did you do after you left flying? Which skills were you able to transfer?

I guess with the demise of the UK in Europe, your experience would be very useful to the CAA Ops Branch, or AAIB, or even working in the Sim. Not to mention a plethora of specialist advice roles for the industry.

[back to Boeing]

Is this a post retirement question or a career change question?

if it’s a post retirement question I intend to never set foot anywhere near an aircraft or an airport ever again unless I absolutely have to. I’m currently looking at what to do with my significant increase in spare time I’m about to get (tied in with my imminent start of part time work). Several ideas are tickling my brain.

If if it’s a career change question, personlly I’d go back to logistics which is an area I had a career in before flying.

[back to Boeing]

Is this a post retirement question or a career change question?

if it’s a post retirement question I intend to never set foot anywhere near an aircraft or an airport ever again unless I absolutely have to. I’m currently looking at what to do with my significant increase in spare time I’m about to get (tied in with my imminent start of part time work). Several ideas are tickling my brain.

If if it’s a career change question, personlly I’d go back to logistics which is an area I had a career in before flying.

[ShamrockF]

What about getting a flight instructors rating and helping some folk get their first steps into the industry? There's quite a few flight schools struggling to get good teachers, and with your knowledge of aviation and flying commercial, it'd make a big difference to your students.

[macdo]

OMG - go back to working in GA! Not a chance. If I can afford to fly for pleasure I will, but tooling around in knackered 30 year old Cessna's (which I loved as a youngster) waiting for the pupil to try and kill you again. No ta!
I think you certainly need something to engage the brain and muscle, but like Back to Boeing said, it'll be miles away from an airport.
Sorry, to answer the OP's question. We all have plenty to offer a future employer (should you want one) all the years of running the show and guiding the team, is brilliant management training. I think the biggest shock might be how little monetary worth our skills are outside of an airline.

[Mach E Avelli]

Lucky for me I took the check pilot path quite early in my career.
So when ‘retirement’ came I already held all the TRE/IRE and simulator approvals needed to work part time.
I have not missed flying - in fact prefer the stability and mental stimulation of sim work without all the hassles of customs, security, packing and unpacking each night in a different hotel, early wake up calls to repeat the security, customs etc bull!!!! all over again next day, arriving home too buggered to do anything physical etc.
I sleep better, have more time for leisure pursuits and believe my health has actually improved since quitting flying.
Occasionally I still do get in the pilot seat but only for fun now, and on my terms.

There are other avenues, particularly if you can write well. Manuals, training programs etc. Or lecturing theory subjects, though that does not pay much. The trick is not to take on too much. Learn to say “no” to some of the demands that will come your way. Even if you can afford to work for nothing, insist on a fair day’s pay. Do not undervalue your experience.

[iggy]

Pay is crap Shamrock. Used to be a step up in any pilot's career but since the race to the bottom started all you need to teach others how to fly is a license and an iPad.