If you're doing it for enviroMENTAL reasons, you need to leave aviation all together. I burned almost 7000 gallons of JP-5 this weekend, and I was just one guy in the flight.
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IFS Costs $751.25 to member
- Thread starter fc2spyguy
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You are correct... except I drive a little over 20k/year. My jeep is 11months old and I have 20,500 on it as of now. Not all is commuting, a good portion is 600 mile weekend trips back home. Which doubling your math would yield a payoff in 4.25 years based on just gas... not even counting such things like $300 tires on the jeep.
Well, I ran the same numbers when I bought my motorcycle. Comparing the gas it would take to drive my Jeep everyday versus the cost of a motorcycle payment and gas for driving it the majority of the time, I was able to actually save $150 per month. In turn, I put that into an IRA, let it do it's job, and I'm making money. On top of that, I have an additional asset (to a certain degree) in the motorcycle that I now own.
Good headwork, but I'm pretty sure the Navy paid us all more than $751.25 while we were all sitting around in A-pool waiting to class up for IFS or API. Moral of the story... Suck it up!
Good headwork, but I'm pretty sure the Navy paid us all more than $751.25 while we were all sitting around in A-pool waiting to class up for IFS or API. Moral of the story... Suck it up!
I dunno why everyone is telling him to suck it up. I was lucky and had IFS only a few miles away when I was at the Academy. If I had been down in P-cola and had to drive so far, I would've been thinking the same thing. It not exactly like he's chosen to drive 60 miles plus to work on his own volition, and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect reimbursement for that expense, when he's required to go.
you can get No-Cost TAD orders, which make you eligible to pay for your own room at the Q.
I agree (sort of). It is a shitty system that requires someone to drive that far for required training and not reimburse them. It sounds like Navy vehicles are available, however, just not at the convenient times that the SNA needs them. He could drive up with the other dudes at 4am or whenever they go if he really wanted. Therefore the SNA must value driving his own vehicle more than he values the inconvenient van. I have a hard time believing that IFS sucks that bad (I don't know because it wasn't around back then).
We drive up to Brewton to do RDO also. Yes, it sucks, but not as bad as hitching a ride up with the crash crew or checking out the duty van from the SDO, so I just suck it up and drive. I don't even claim it on my taxes (though maybe I should). I still think a MK1 MOD0 ENS is getting paid pretty good to go to the beach and hit Seville for a few months, those few drives out to Mobile from Pensacola (what is that, like 40 miles at the most?) shouldn't break the bank.
The moral of the story: If there is a better system, try to fix the problem. Make the suggestion up the chain, go all the way to the top if you feel strong enough about it. You never know, they might get more vans or a duty driver assigned to the route to ferry people. Otherwise, suck it up.
The Navy probably figures since most in flight school are making bank with having roommates and pocketing all that extra BAH they can get by with sending us to far away places... That is just my logic. I lucked out and I am close to IFS.
MasterBates
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As opposed to the free flight training I got by just driving to work in Primary?
So, by that theory, no reimbursement for expenses occurred while on a cross country, airshow, etc, since, well, it's free for the flight and the training too?
Which puzzlingly does not excuse you from physical muster at NASP.