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Yeah, I work straight mids now as the OMIC...I truly miss working airplanes. In fact, I'm sitting at the watch desk right now. I'm still area certified, and I'm the only OMIC who still gets time. I usually open a sector up at about 2 in the morning and sit there and talk to FEDEX and UPS guys as they arrive/depart. I only average about 8 hours a month. I was in India on vacation in March when covid hit...we were 5 on and 10 off for the first 2 months. Now we're 5 on 5 off for at least the rest of the year. It'll be interesting how traffic drops on Oct 1st if the CARES money really stops propping airlines up.
We were averaging about 7000-7500 ops a day pre-covid, down from peak numbers of just under 9K a day. Now we're lucky to hit 4500 ops a day at ZID. In April, we were around 1500 ops a day...on a busy day. Crazy.
The plan is to retire as soon as I'm eligible. Not married, no kids. We have a three part retirement system with the FAA and I've been maxing it out since day one. I'll make more in retirement than what ill make sitting at a desk all night.
Ted...you were probably gone when the "250 girl" was working Feeder at SoCal. we'd be perfectly on our metering times or giving her perfect in-trail, and you could hear the panic in her voice as she would yell over the shout line that she "needed everybody at 250!!!!" fun times. haha.
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-mike
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