pointSixtyFive

Looking for advice from anyone familiar with federal FMLA/PPL or NATCA/FAA leave rules.

Before giving birth, management advised me to file FMLA because my annual leave couldn’t be guaranteed. I followed that advice and used my own accrued sick and annual leave during that time. I was never told that putting those hours under FMLA would reduce the Paid Parental Leave...

The 4% rule was built for people retiring at 65 with a 30 year horizon. Plenty of us walk out at 50. That's a 38 year retirement, which is a different animal.

So I ran a controller I'll call Dave. Out at 50, 25 years under 6(c)...

I keep hearing two versions of this and they are both wrong. Version one: "bank it, it's basically a free year of service." Version two: "use it or lose it, burn it before you go." So I ran the same 6(c) retirement twice and chan...

Lots of uncertainty regarding reinstatement process. I know things change all the time and I know you have to be apart from the faa for a year in order to direct hire. Does anyone know if you are required to be cpc for more than a year prior to resigning in order to get rehired?

We obsess over the high-3 and forget the one number that runs for 35 years: the COLA. 🔎

Here's what I mean. I took an ATC (call him Tom) retiring at 52 with a $138K high-3, single, in Florida. I kept every single input the...