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Mark Twain once remarked that when a boy is born, he should be placed in a barrel. When he turns eight, one should nail a lid on the barrel and drill air holes, he said. When the boy turns thirteen, one should plug up the air holes.

 

The "terrible" stage doesn't necessarily end, and out of the house isn't always a permanent state.

 

avbug went from the barrel to the basement!

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The actual question in this thread was about the monthly cost of raising a kid. I really couldn't give a rats ass what you pay someone to fly a 747!

 

 

You don't know anything about flying for a living, and clearly don't know anything about the price of being a pilot. You're a hobbyist. Obviously you know nothing about raising a family, either.

 

Buzzkill is correct; there are many who fly for a living because it's too expensive to do it as a hobby. The difference is one who has a passing interest, vs. one who dedicates his life to the craft.

 

As for a 747...the pay isn't so great when one is on the road for 35 days at a time; divide the pay by the number of hours one is gone for the job, and it goes way, way down on an hourly basis. It doesn't need to be a 747. Going out on fires for the summer, where I am now, means I don't see my own bed for months. My longest fire season was ten months.

 

How many times did you pull out of the driveway to go to work, and not come back for ten months? Years?

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Good job posting that question on the General Helicopter Forum of the Vertical Reference Helicopter Message Board...

 

,...as opposed to the Career Forum section?

 

 

If one hour of SFH per month is all it takes for you to tell everyone at the bar that you are a professional helicopter pilot, then yes, the price to pay is not very high.

When you completed the ATP level on Xbox one, did you have to call them to get your new certificate, or did it come automatically? Avbug said his came automatically, but he's on Ps4 so...?

 

Yeah it may have taken me all night to come up with my "dick" response, but at least mine didn't require a translator!

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You don't know anything about flying for a living, and clearly don't know anything about the price of being a pilot. You're a hobbyist. Obviously you know nothing about raising a family, either.

 

Buzzkill is correct; there are many who fly for a living because it's too expensive to do it as a hobby. The difference is one who has a passing interest, vs. one who dedicates his life to the craft.

 

As for a 747...the pay isn't so great when one is on the road for 35 days at a time; divide the pay by the number of hours one is gone for the job, and it goes way, way down on an hourly basis. It doesn't need to be a 747. Going out on fires for the summer, where I am now, means I don't see my own bed for months. My longest fire season was ten months.

 

How many times did you pull out of the driveway to go to work, and not come back for ten months? Years?

 

That's why I got Xbox one instead of Ps4, it has a selection for hobbyist. With what your mom gives you in allowance it should only take you a few weeks to save up for one!

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There are professional pilots on this forum.

There are parents on this forum.

Some are both.

Some have done neither.

Those who have, have experienced life without.

Those who haven’t, haven’t.

One requires a monumentally high degree of responsibility for others.

The other only requires responsibility for self….

Basically, some who “get it” and those who don’t….

 

The cost of my kids IS everything…..

The cost of my career IS everything…….

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I thank my penis every day that I don't "get it"! Plus its once again freefryfriday,...life is good! :D

 

 

https://youtu.be/tPQrDFDkBB8

 

 

,...as usual the answer can be found on youtube. So at least in '89 the monthly cost of a kid was about four flight hours.

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butters, that one kind of backfired, didn't it... :)

It really sounds like you're quite bitter about both not having a place in this industry and not having started a family either. I suggest you start living with the decisions you made and with what kind of person you are and begin looking forward instead of backwards for once. Everything will fall into place eventually.

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The actual question in this thread was about the monthly cost of raising a kid. I really couldn't give a rats ass what you pay someone to fly a 747!

 

$250,000 /18 years/ 12 months = $1157.41. That might sound a little steep, but it's about right considering you have to feed and clothe the little rats for YEARS, they break stuff and they require repair and maintenance themselves- and then they turn into teenagers...

 

If you're an OTR trucker you know how being gone adds costs, and marriages... Three kids is in the neighborhood of 40% of net when she kicks you out (first to file wins) and you will probably end up with all the bills...

 

Yes, you are a 'pilot'. Once a month. If you want to be a "PILOT" make your monthly SFH sessions random irregardless of the weather. Try 300 & 2 for a couple hundred miles with 10 minutes notice and minimal fuel every now and then. Sleep in or around your helicopter a few times a year...

 

I got no problem with amateurs, some are pretty god sticks. But the cost of being a PILOT is much much more than you can even guess.

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Isn't butters the one that wanted desperately to fly for a living, but couldn't, and even tried boatpix and didn't make it? If one can't get a job by buying it, then one definitely doesn't belong in the field as a working pilot. The cost of lifting a finger to help one's self, apparently, is exorbitant and excessive.

 

So, apparently, is contributing to one's own thread, to which end Butters has been wholly unsuccessful.

 

Kids cost everything you have, and everything you will ever have, and if there's any left over, grandkids get the rest.

 

There's no set cost to kids; they get more expensive each year, and a full family will note a different expense for each age of child in any given year. Bills are a duty to pay. Kids are a privilege.

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There's no squabble, and certainly nothing to take elsewhere. If one is going to create a thread with no substance and then offer no contribution, take it up with him. Most of the rest of us have contributed and addressed the topic.

 

You haven't, of course. Are you able?

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Most of the rest of us have contributed and addressed the topic.

You haven't, of course. Are you able?

Already told you, Bug, that having been in the aviation industry for 45 years led me to catching AIDS, it cost me about half a million. Fortunately the kids were adults by then and unaffected.

 

Raising 2 kids also included 10 years of $30k each at private schools, plus attendant costs. University fees for multiple degrees were at the taxpayers expense, to be paid back slowly under the HECS.

 

I was paid to learn to fly, thank you Defence Department, and I have never flown an aircraft without being paid for it.

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So, apparently, is contributing to one's own thread, to which end Butters has been wholly unsuccessful.

 

Au contraire Buggybaby, I actually found the answer to the question I asked in this thread of mine. Kids cost about four flight hours a month.

 

By the way, this is you right,...?

 

 

...and Whoknowsidont is the guy holding the camera I assume?

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Au contraire, I actually found the answer to the question I asked in this thread of mine. Kids cost about four flight hours a month.

 

 

 

 

Not even close, but then you wouldn't know.

 

Just as you wouldn't know what it means to be an aviator.

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Not even close, but then you wouldn't know.

 

Just as you wouldn't know what it means to be an aviator.

Yep, you got me dude, in fact its time to come clean, this is the only helicopter I've ever flown.

 

 

,...damn I suck at this game!

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congrats butters ! you have joined the ranks now grasshoppah ! The mighty bug has flown your pastures.

 

Isn't it amazing that when one of these starts on this site, avbug is always the other party? I guess that is what it takes to fly a 747 air tanker for a living and be a philosopher and now an ignoramus extraordinaire.

 

Lets just hope he has no kids, imagine little bugs like him popping up all over? Get out the bugspray ! !

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Yes, you are a 'pilot'. Once a month. If you want to be a "PILOT" make your monthly SFH sessions random irregardless of the weather. Try 300 & 2 for a couple hundred miles with 10 minutes notice and minimal fuel every now and then...

 

Thanks, but I don't view low ceilings and visibility as a badge I need to sew on my leather jacket.

 

Perfectly happy spelling 'pilot' in all lower case. :)

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