[Nazgul280]

Fing,

I'm a 38 year-old corporate pilot, and I work with many ex-airline career pilots who lost their pensions. I understand your plight.

The first thing I would do is get out of Aviation. Sure, you like the rest of us, loved flying since you were 5 years old and always new that's what you were going to do. After all the ladder-climbing, modernization and globalization of the Aviation Industry and equipment this job has become something very different than what it was when you started out.

I don't know about you, but when I was young I used to buy all the Avaition related magazines off the rack and read them. Now when I get home I want to read anything BUT that stuff (for entertainment purposes, that is-I'm still a professional in the utmost regard). Maybe it's because it's your job and no longer a fun hobby, but something has changed.

So..... let's think of something you would be interested in, but without the risk of those crazy Pilot jobs in foreign lands. Something tells me you don't want to be scud running in the mountains of Columbia or working 16 hour days flying a Sheik's cousin around Yemen at this stage in your life.

How about Consulting? I see a lot of wealthy people do this after "retirement".

Perhaps you have many contacts you have made over the years and they know someone who wants to improve their aviation business or even start one?

You could work for the Flight Safety organization that does audits of flight departments. They and others like them are super busy right now preparing US based GA for SMS compliance by the end of 2010. You are probably an expert in this realm, and you would travel from place to place on their dime. You wouldn't be bored and you'd be in a new city every month, and would probably have Health Insurance to boot.

Good Luck,

-Dana