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Commuting during flight school

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TyKing said:
Your right. I'm an idiot, just plain wrong!!! Gotta get my life together. If you still feel the need to, you can make another post about it..... Not trying to be a jerk, just poking fun at the dog pile.

Thanks everyone for the responses, my family and I will definitely look into potentially moving closer to Milton before I start primary. Unfortunately my family and I had certain circumstances that force our hand in getting a place in the back gate of NASP. Push come to shove, I may just have to do the commute, personally I'm okay with the commute, but I totally understand where you guys are coming from with the advice and I will heed your advice.

I'll probably make an update post, post primary, if I end up doing the commute; to give other SNAs an idea of what it may be like having a long commute during primary.
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At least you're going in with eyes open and won't be surprised that you're going to spend some extra time in the car. Personally, I don't think a couple extra minutes in the car are going to make or break your flight school career. I don't think I ever got a "get here in 60min to brief" call but not saying they don't happen. Since I lived further away I did tend to hang around the squadron/base for a bit after I was canxd in case something popped up or to try and get a flight off of the pickup board.
 
Dontcallmegump

Dontcallmegump

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RoarkJr. said:
My car insurance did double when I moved here from Virginia…
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Rookie mistake, keep your HOR insurance and the lower rates.

Added bonus is most states don't share speeding ticket data. I.e. your insurance never finds out you've got a lead foot or twisty wrist.
 
Dontcallmegump

Dontcallmegump

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Pags said:
At least you're going in with eyes open and won't be surprised that you're going to spend some extra time in the car. Personally, I don't think a couple extra minutes in the car are going to make or break your flight school career. I don't think I ever got a "get here in 60min to brief" call but not saying they don't happen. Since I lived further away I did tend to hang around the squadron/base for a bit after I was canxd in case something popped up or to try and get a flight off of the pickup board.
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I got some variation of that a few times. However it was always prefaced with "hey, planes ready" or "flight before us I'm safe-ed" come in as soon as you're able and let me know when you're ready to brief".

Just be prepared and its no big deal.
 
AllYourBass

AllYourBass

I'm okay with the events unfolding currently
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Birdbrain said:
Commutes aren't all bad by the way. Gives you an opportunity daily to go through EPs.
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Probably wasn't smart of me to drive up the 10 early in the morning while flipping through my EP flash cards on my study app, but, well, there it is.

I do miss having a ~30-45 minute commute because that's my ideal window for a lot of my podcasts and for a decent bite into audiobooks. My commute for the last five years has been 8-15 minutes, so I can basically crush NPR's Up First or one Tool song.
 
DanMa1156

DanMa1156

Is it baseball season yet?
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Dontcallmegump said:
Rookie mistake, keep your HOR insurance and the lower rates.
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I might be wrong on this, but I don't think that's allowed. Your car insurance isn't quite as portable as other benefits (like voting, taxes) we get in the military - I thought your car is required to be insured in the state in which is spends the preponderance of time, or as USAA asks "where is it parked most nights?"
 
SynixMan

SynixMan

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TyKing said:
Your right. I'm an idiot, just plain wrong!!! Gotta get my life together. If you still feel the need to, you can make another post about it..... Not trying to be a jerk, just poking fun at the dog pile.

Thanks everyone for the responses, my family and I will definitely look into potentially moving closer to Milton before I start primary. Unfortunately my family and I had certain circumstances that force our hand in getting a place in the back gate of NASP. Push come to shove, I may just have to do the commute, personally I'm okay with the commute, but I totally understand where you guys are coming from with the advice and I will heed your advice.

I'll probably make an update post, post primary, if I end up doing the commute; to give other SNAs an idea of what it may be like having a long commute during primary.
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So I was a bit overly sarcastic in my initial response, and punching down rank-wise rarely works. Hopefully we gave you some good ideas on ways to mitigate the pain.
 
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