This article reminded me of why I’m so happy all the active duty pilots here at Mudpike still seem to be gainfully employed! 
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Not a day goes by when I don’t think about how fortunate I am right now. Hopefully my luck will hold.
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Same here…
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Pilot friend of mine has been without work since May without any prospects on the horizon.
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Agreed. It’s done great things for military pilot retention in the last year.
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Same here, guy i went to school with hasn’t flown in almost a year now.
I don’t fly professionally only for fun. But I haven’t flown in so long I’m legitimately going to have to sit down and have some training again before I fly. I was ok at the start of all this and did a few flights here and there to keep current, but since then I’ve started a business, changed jobs, sub contracted to various firms, worked 23 hour days pretty regularly and switch from nights to days multiple times a week.
I feel like I can only retain so much stuff in my head and the skill bleed has to affect me somewhere and I am sure it will be the flying. I do try to keep on top of it by re checking my PPL tests and I pass them every time but I don’t feel the knowledge I did before if that makes sense. I’m very worried about it. Not the actual flying part of it. I can take off and land with my eyes shut pretty much but its the rest of the spectrum I am concerned about. I am definitely going to be grabbing @Scoop for a “pleasure flight” at some point and making him put me through the wringer. All for fun obviously…
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“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes”? [Juvenal, Satire VI, lines 347–3480
I need a bit of practice too. Haven’t flown for about three months. But for the Huey I would be climbing the wall. I need a collective.
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I’m perfectly happy allowing you to watch over me. I’ll take 10k flying hours and sit up and listen a bit 
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I was thinking the same. I knew a bunch of guys who had already or were about to give the one finger salute to the USAF and go to the airlines.
Covid really changed those plans.
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IME, a couple of hours dual, and you’ll be right back in the saddle, especially if you occasionally fly circuits in a civi sim. Try to make it as real as possible, making your coms as you would IRL and flying by the numbers.
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I had this feeling last time I had a couple of months off and was fine going solo straight away but this time i am not gambling. Few hours with a competent person and ill feel happier.
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Like Paul, Troll and Boomer, I could not be luckier. Although my seniority would have made me relatively safe regardless, I credit ALPA (my union) and my airline. No pilots here were furloughed. And if 2021 is even marginally better than 2020, we will likely need to hire. Fingers crossed.
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