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- 46 - one reservation. What is that reservation? A. The reservation is that if the United States grants you a gratuitous pension on the basis of your military service from April, 1942, through August, 1945, you would not receive full credit for the same service under the air line pilots' retirement system. 24. Q. I started as copilot in August, 1934. Except for 3 months in 1938, when I was laid off, and 2 months in 1940 when I was recovering from an accident, I have worked as copilot, captain, check pilot or chief pilot in every month since. In 1948, I was employed every month as a chief pilot. My pay in 7 months was $1100 per month, and in the other 5, $1150 per month. So my total salary in 1948 was $13,450. What would my prior service annuity credit be? A. The first step in calculating your prior service annuity credit would be to get the monthly compensation applicable to the prior service. For a pilot whose pay in every month in 1948 was based on a stipulated salary, the average is computed by dividing total 1948 pay by the number of months of service. In this the total pay was $13,450 and the months of service 12, so the average is $13,450 divided by 12, or $1120.83. But the maximum monthly average creditable is $1000. Since the actual average in this case exceeds $1000, the monthly compensation applicable to service before July 1, 1949, is $1000. The second step is to get the annuity credit for each year of prior service. This is $1.00 plus 1 per cent of $1000, or a total of $11. The third step is to compute the length of prior service. The total number of months from August, 1934, to June, 1949, including both beginning and ending months, is 179. No service was rendered in 5 of these months, so the total prior service is 174 months or 14 1/2 years. The fourth step is to multiply the annuity credit for each year of prior service by the total length of such prior service. Thus, in this case the prior service annuity credit would be 14.5 times $11, or $159.50. 25. Q. I served in the U. S. Army for 52 months ending July, 1946. In August, 1947, I got a job as copilot and I have flown as copilot ever since, though I had one whole month of lay-off in October, 1947, another whole month in 1948, and a third in January, 1949. I was on a straight salary basis in all the 11 months I worked in 1948, and my total pay for the 11 months was $4213. What would my prior service annuity credit be? A. First, your monthly compensation for your prior service would be $4213 divided by 11, or $383. Second, your prior service annuity credit for each year of prior service would be $1.00 plus 1 per cent of $383, or $4.83. You had, third, 52 months of military service which may be creditable as prior service; beginning with August, 1947, over-all elapsed time is 23 months through June, 1949. The months of prior service as air line pilot would be 20, since there were 3 months in which no service was performed. So prior military service 4-1/3 years, and prior air line service is 1-1/3 years. Fourth, the prior service credit is 4-1/3 times $4.83, or $20.93 for the military part, and 1-2/3 times $4.83, or $8.05 for the air line part, or a total of $28.98. 26. Q. Why not add the military and air line prior service together before multiplying in the fourth step in the preceding question? Wouldn't that be simpler? A. Yes. The reason the military and the air line service were kept separate is that there is a condition attached to the creditability of the military service, as indicated in the answer to question 23. You may not get the full military service credit, so it was kept separate. There is no condition
