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Sorry to hear that. On a more positive note, it appears your career takeoffs and landings worked out to be exactly the same number, which is a great achievement!
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Sorry to hear that. On a more positive note, it appears your career takeoffs and landings worked out to be exactly the same number, which is a great achievement!
Souschef
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Thank you-not only that, but they use the plane again after I landedSorry to hear that. On a more positive note, it appears your career takeoffs and landings worked out to be exactly the same number, which is a great achievement!
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So sorry to hear this, but thank you for doing all of those Angel Flight missions!
I never was able to use the Angel Flight service, but I was actually able to use the Corporate Angel Network program for one flight for one of my surgeries. It was an amazing experience to fly on a private jet. They even let us sit in the jump seat for take off and landing. It turned a difficult time into a sweet memory. We were so grateful and will never forget the kindness of strangers.
Think of all of the cancer survivors who are so grateful to you!
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So sorry to hear this, but thank you for doing all of those Angel Flight missions!
I never was able to use the Angel Flight service, but I was actually able to use the Corporate Angel Network program for one flight for one of my surgeries. It was an amazing experience to fly on a private jet. They even let us sit in the jump seat for take off and landing. It turned a difficult time into a sweet memory. We were so grateful and will never forget the kindness of strangers.
Think of all of the cancer survivors who are so grateful to you!
When my mother was ill with cancer in the early 1990s, she used the Corporate Angels Network for several of her flights from NY to Houston (MD Anderson) and back. I went with her on some of those flights on private corporate jets. It was like flying in your living room. One flight was a deadhead flight so my mom and were the only passengers. They also saved us some money by driving us to the nearby car rental office, saving us cab fare and the airport rental surcharge
We had to cater to the times and NY-area airports for several of the flights my mom took, sometimes with my dad instead of me. Having to find a secluded hangar near the Houston airport in 5 AM darkness once was a little nerve-wracking. As that flight neared JFK here in NY, the little plane flew low and we saw my mom's house from above, then later saw my apartment building on the final approach. That was pretty cool.
It was during those days that I first heard of Enron, one of the companies which flew us to Houston from New Jersey's Teterboro Airport. Enron was a thriving company at the time.
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Yes, finding the secluded hangar in Atlanta in the daylight was a challenge, too, for us. I can only imagine in darkness!
I believe our flight took us into Teterboro as well.
Indeed, I agree, it is like flying in your living room. Such an amazing experience!!! Here's a pic of the jet inside and out. What a great memory!
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Yes, finding that hangar was a little tough. Seeing the plane sitting on the lit tarmac outside the building before we arrived at the gate was a relief. We parked the rental car in one of the rental car spots and made a mental note of it for when I would call the car rental office after arriving back home. It was too early to drop the car off at the car rental office. I described to them as best as I could where this obscure hangar was, and gave them their phone number. I told the agent that if I could find this place in the dark, you should be able to find it during the day.
By the time I got back to my place in NY, the rental office had already retrieved the car, they told me.
The plane itself looked similar to your picture. It had, among its plush seats, 2 forward-facing and 2 rear-facing seats which could slide sideways together to form a little conference table for 4 people. In the back was a small sofa which my mom and I took separate naps. We had to get up at 4 AM to pack up, eat, and drive to the airport by 5 AM. This was the deadhead flight, so we were the only (sleepy) passengers.
The flight didn't arrive at any of JFK's main passenger terminals, of course. Instead, it let us out at the old Aviation terminal. I somehow figured out where we were, something I had to do so I could describe to the limo service where to find us to drive us home.
The flight from Teterboro had company employees aboard, so we stayed out of their way while they did some work.
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Thank you Souschef,for the good you have done. 47 years of flying sounds like a great career!My milestone is bittersweet. I have been flying since 1972, and for the past 5 years been flying with my copilot, Jim.on Angel Flight missions.
He has Parkinson's and he is on a new med and his doctor grounded him. I have also started taking meds for hypertension.
With this harmonic convergence of events, plus the fact that DW does not want me flying alone, I will hang up my wings.
I recently joined the United Flying Octogenarians, and will keep my membership up with them.
To celebrate my 80th birthday last year, I was able to fly a P-51 WW2 fighter. Bucket list filled
Souschef
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Thank you Bill. By the way I never flew commercially. All the costs of flying came out of my pocket.
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Milestone: As I just crowed on another thread here, as a 72(t) SEPP plan participant, I slipped by that 59 1/2 age number a while ago. So I could now take a 401(k) withdrawal larger than my fixed plan amount if I ever needed to. I don't have the need, but flexibility is always nice! Thanks to all who long ago helped educate me about FI/RE well enough to reach this point. (Including, I suppose, one notoriously public BAD example. Sometimes if we are attentive enough, we can learn through another's foibles. I know I sure did.)
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Milestone: my 20 year term life insurance just hit year 21 and the rate skyrocketed. So I canceled it as I don’t need it anymore! I hope it is not like an appliance warranty where the appliance dies right after the warranty expires.
Milestone: my 20 year term life insurance just hit year 21 and the rate skyrocketed. So I canceled it as I don’t need it anymore! I hope it is not like an appliance warranty where the appliance dies right after the warranty expires.
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Huston55
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Nope. It’s usually just major repairs; think knee or hip replacement, and dental work.
KCGeezer
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Had the first deposit from social security show up at the bank yesterday. Easy deal.
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I got my very first pension check yesterday.
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My wife and I have that same date picked out.
The closer we get to it the more antsy DW gets about retiring. She understands the math but she is antsy about not having an actual paycheck coming in. Its all good, she will come around
Hit the 1MM net worth about 6 months ago... We are finally at a point where I don't think I will see it swing below that again while we are still working.
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Andre1969
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I added up some numbers over the weekend, and calculated that, if I hadn't bought my house, back in September of last year, I'd now be over the $2M mark in investible assets. Here's how I did that estimate...
$1,802,000: actual value of investible assets on 6/28.
$169,000: the check I had to cut when I bought the house (down payment plus closing
$7500: the good faith deposit, plus various inspection fees
$20,580: the first seven months of mortgage payments. I've actually made two more payments, but that was after a refinance where I got an escrow refund, and it's pretty much canceled out those first two payments.
$1400: what I've put into the swimming pool at the new place, so far.
So, throw all that together, and I come up with $2,000,480. I'm sure if you threw in other incidentals too, such as increased gasoline costs for the longer commute, and other odds and ends, it would be a bit higher.
And, I realize that, when you throw in home equity, I'm over $2M anyway...there's the equity in the new house, plus the old house that I haven't sold yet. But still it's kind of a nice feeling knowing that, in theory, I could have been there, just in investible assets.
$1,802,000: actual value of investible assets on 6/28.
$169,000: the check I had to cut when I bought the house (down payment plus closing
$7500: the good faith deposit, plus various inspection fees
$20,580: the first seven months of mortgage payments. I've actually made two more payments, but that was after a refinance where I got an escrow refund, and it's pretty much canceled out those first two payments.
$1400: what I've put into the swimming pool at the new place, so far.
So, throw all that together, and I come up with $2,000,480. I'm sure if you threw in other incidentals too, such as increased gasoline costs for the longer commute, and other odds and ends, it would be a bit higher.
And, I realize that, when you throw in home equity, I'm over $2M anyway...there's the equity in the new house, plus the old house that I haven't sold yet. But still it's kind of a nice feeling knowing that, in theory, I could have been there, just in investible assets.
Is that cool or what? I still remember my first pension deposit, and the realization that all I had to do was maintain a pulse and they'll send me money every month!
Huston55
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Is that cool or what? I still remember my first pension deposit, and the realization that all I had to do was maintain a pulse and they'll send me money every month!
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Finally closed out my work 401k , last work date is July 4th and did a roll over to an IRA with little over 1 mill after 24 years of contribution.
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Wow- congratulations!
Fun moment this week. We were celebrating our 29th anniversary on the same day that we past 1.5 mil. in investments. Later I noticed that we were out of peanut butter and my wife said "I know, but it wasn't on sale the last time I went shopping" She said she didn't care if we two mil., she just knew it as going on sale in the next couple of days! With frugality a way of life for so long, now I know how we were able to celebrate this milestone.
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