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A close up of a buddy of mine's plane (well actually it belongs to Continental), the Contiental Express Embraer-145.

Captain Terry Sonnier gave me a close up tour, and I snapped some pics along the way.

He took me into his office (the cockpit) and let me sit in his "chair" (the left seat).

I'm gettin' emotional.
 
Hey one of my best friends just got a job with Eagle (American Eagle?). He's going to "class" (is that right?) June 12th in Dallas and says he's going to be crazy busy for a few months with training.

I like to amaze him with my seeming omniscience when it comes to what's on his mind. What is he in for with this first job and the training? He was a flight instructor for a few years before this. Is it like going to the first two years of med school wehre you get tons of info thrown at you?
 
Sammich81 said:
Hey one of my best friends just got a job with Eagle (American Eagle?). He's going to "class" (is that right?) June 12th in Dallas and says he's going to be crazy busy for a few months with training.

I like to amaze him with my seeming omniscience when it comes to what's on his mind. What is he in for with this first job and the training? He was a flight instructor for a few years before this. Is it like going to the first two years of med school wehre you get tons of info thrown at you?
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Absolutely.

The flight crew has to know their bird inside and out...dimensions, capacity, an intricate knowledge of flight systems, navigational equipment, and intricate knowledge of their company's Book .

Think medicine is regulated?

We pale in comparison when it comes to regulations compared to the airline industry.

EVERY possible situation is meticulously described in The Book.

And you must adhere or you're a memory.

When you can depart from an airport. When you can't. (weather concerns)

When you can land at a destination. When you can't.

How much fuel you have to have when you take off.

And when you land.

What you wear.

What you can bring with you.

How much time has to elapse before you can fly again.

How much time can't elapse before you can fly again.

And, I almost forgot.

Ya gotta know how to fly the thing.

Your buddy is in for an intense few months.

But he's gonna love every minute of it.
 
I bet. He's such a flying junkie. I always tell him that doctors and pilots share many, many personality traits...adrenaline junkies, control freaks, love the game. I can't believe he now gets to experience, in the span of only a few months, the insanity of M1 and M2 years. This is awesome. He has been my faithful ear, listening to me vent about the trials and tribulations of medical training...and now it's on him!

I can't wait til he takes me up in a plane. What a freakin rush.

I also read in Complications that the airline industry has really tight, good safeguards/safety regulations and that when anesthesiology went through a big reform they modeled some of their changes on the airlines. True?
 
Sammich81 said:
I bet. He's such a flying junkie. I always tell him that doctors and pilots share many, many personality traits...adrenaline junkies, control freaks, love the game. I can't believe he now gets to experience, in the span of only a few months, the insanity of M1 and M2 years. This is awesome. He has been my faithful ear, listening to me vent about the trials and tribulations of medical training...and now it's on him!

I can't wait til he takes me up in a plane. What a freakin rush.

I also read in Complications that the airline industry has really tight, good safeguards/safety regulations and that when anesthesiology went through a big reform they modeled some of their changes on the airlines. True?
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Absolutely.

Anesthesia and flying are eerily similar.

Both are worlds are kept upright by technology.

A pilot keeps the plane upright in instrument meteorological conditions (when you can't look out the windo and se the horison/ground because of cloud cover, etc) by watching his gauges, and making adjustments.

An anesthesiologist keeps a patient alive by watching his monitors, and making adjustments.

Airline procedures are followed to the T by the flight crew.

In medicine, standardization of procedures leads to optimum patient care/safety.
 
jetproppilot said:
Absolutely.

Anesthesia and flying are eerily similar.

Both are worlds are kept upright by technology.

A pilot keeps the plane upright in instrument meteorological conditions (when you can't look out the windo and se the horison/ground because of cloud cover, etc) by watching his gauges, and making adjustments.

An anesthesiologist keeps a patient alive by watching his monitors, and making adjustments.

Airline procedures are followed to the T by the flight crew.

In medicine, standardization of procedures leads to optimum patient care/safety.
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You and my oldest brother would get along well. He was a captain on a 737 for 10yrs and on a 767-300ER for 12yrs. **** everytime I see him all he does is talk about flying.
 
At least he has something to relate to you...

My friend is the only one outside of my medical friends who seem to get how I feel when I intubate successfully (don't make fun I'm still a med student!), when I get to make the incision, when it looks like the patient is going to try and die and then they get reeled back in by pushing the right drugs at the right time.
 
toughlife said:
You and my oldest brother would get along well. He was a captain on a 737 for 10yrs and on a 767-300ER for 12yrs. **** everytime I see him all he does is talk about flying.
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Its an addiction, Tough, worse than crack.

Larry, my buddy, a corporate pilot: "HEY BILL....gotta trip to Houston Hobby tomorrow in the King Air to pick up a few people...wanna fly the DEAD HEAD?"

"But ya gotta make a choice...its on the same day that you're supposed to take Pamela Anderson out."

JET:

"Larry,

I'll see you at the airport."

nuf said.

I'd rather fly left-seat in a King Air than boink Pamela Anderson.

Like I said, flying is an addiction.
 
jetproppilot said:
I'd rather fly left-seat in a King Air than boink Pamela Anderson.
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Well......she's got Hepatitis C so I don't see how that REALLY shows your love of flying. :laugh:
 
You guys read the article by whats-his-name airline pilot in the latest issue of flying? Makes a good case for not flying for a living but getting a job that's fun and pays enough to fly yourself around.

I'm a refugee of flying for pay and a-certain-ugrad/141-school in FL...residency pay sucks enough that I don't get to fly (well, residency + kids/mortgage). It was painful to let everything slowly lapse - instrument currency....night currency....flight review....CFI/I....BUT I'm hoping to turn it around soon. I'm a total flying nut...I'd probably sell a nut if it paid for some time.

Anyways I know that the grass probably seems greener on the flying for a living side, but BTDT and flying on my equipment and schedule is the way to go.

Take a poor resident/med student flying!
 
I can't wait to get behind the control stick again. I had to temporarily give up my flying when I quit my job to go back to school. I thought of flying as a career, but ultimately decided that itwould be more fun as a hobby that I could do on my own terms.
 
Only if I can drench the bathroom in hand sanitizer first! Sorry, too prissy for that unless I'm in first class (which, as a med student, i never am!)
 
jetproppilot said:
A close up of a buddy of mine's plane (well actually it belongs to Continental), the Contiental Express Embraer-145.

Captain Terry Sonnier gave me a close up tour, and I snapped some pics along the way.

He took me into his office (the cockpit) and let me sit in his "chair" (the left seat).

I'm gettin' emotional.
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Dude I dont know how you can manage to fly in those 'jets'. I've been on quite a few United Express and Am Eagle Jets. I'm seriously praying a rosary almost everytime. The turbulence you feel on those things 😱

If it's an option, I'd rather fly on those airbuses anyday. I dont know what it is, but those big planes just make you feel a heck of a lot more safe.
 
SleepIsGood said:
Dude I dont know how you can manage to fly in those 'jets'. I've been on quite a few United Express and Am Eagle Jets. I'm seriously praying a rosary almost everytime. The turbulence you feel on those things 😱

If it's an option, I'd rather fly on those airbuses anyday. I dont know what it is, but those big planes just make you feel a heck of a lot more safe.
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Your feelings are not uncommon.
 
toughlife said:
You and my oldest brother would get along well. He was a captain on a 737 for 10yrs and on a 767-300ER for 12yrs. **** everytime I see him all he does is talk about flying.
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Who'd he fly for, Tough?

Whats he doing now?
 
SleepIsGood said:
Dude I dont know how you can manage to fly in those 'jets'. I've been on quite a few United Express and Am Eagle Jets. I'm seriously praying a rosary almost everytime. The turbulence you feel on those things 😱

If it's an option, I'd rather fly on those airbuses anyday. I dont know what it is, but those big planes just make you feel a heck of a lot more safe.
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You're joking, right??? Fast movers are where it's at....we have ejection seats! If all is lost, I can give the plane back to the tax payers and get out. Unfortunately, JetPP would be ridin' it in. I'm thinking that would provide a little more motivation to get an engine started in flight, eh?
 
Heeed! said:
Fast movers are where it's at....we have ejection seats! If all is lost, I can give the plane back to the tax payers and get out. Unfortunately, JetPP would be ridin' it in.
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Don't say that too loud around the wives and kids of the pilots of a recent-memory-military-jet formation-team who were focused on the wing of their leader during execution of an aerial maneuver who all made lawn darts of themselves....ejection seats and all.
 
Heeed! said:
You're joking, right??? Fast movers are where it's at....we have ejection seats! If all is lost, I can give the plane back to the tax payers and get out. Unfortunately, JetPP would be ridin' it in. I'm thinking that would provide a little more motivation to get an engine started in flight, eh?
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:laugh:

Man, if only there were ejection seats. Dude, I would feel 10x safer with those kind of seats.
 
jetproppilot said:
A close up of a buddy of mine's plane (well actually it belongs to Continental), the Contiental Express Embraer-145.

Captain Terry Sonnier gave me a close up tour, and I snapped some pics along the way.

He took me into his office (the cockpit) and let me sit in his "chair" (the left seat).

I'm gettin' emotional.
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Emotional my ass - you were aroused!!
 
Do you flying fans spend time playing with Flight Simulator 2004? I love it. I cannot wait for Flight Simulator X to come. I heard it will be available at the end of this year!

By the way Jetproppilot, the cockpit of the Contiental Express Embraer-145 is VERY tight and small. I wonder how the pilots get in and out?

Being a pilot (Commercial or Military) has always been my #1 Career interest. I will leave medicine in a heart beat to become even a Commuter Pilot. Unfortunately due to physical and political limitations, I cannot fly profesionally. But once I start making money in Medicine, I plan on buying and flying my own Cessna Citation (cheapist Jet). Until then, I will curb my cravings with FS.

Very nice avatar.
 
SleepIsGood said:
Dude I dont know how you can manage to fly in those 'jets'. I've been on quite a few United Express and Am Eagle Jets. I'm seriously praying a rosary almost everytime. The turbulence you feel on those things 😱

If it's an option, I'd rather fly on those airbuses anyday. I dont know what it is, but those big planes just make you feel a heck of a lot more safe.
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Flying without feeling turbulence is like not flying at all. I love those small planes, especially because they "move with the wind".

By best experience ever was landing on the Island of Dominica (DOM) Melville Airport with Americal Eagle. What a ride. The airport is surrounded by high volcanic mountainS, and it was fun experiencing how the pilots try to dodge the mountain tops on landing!!!

And whats up with the Airbus thingy...You meant Boeing, right? 😉 USA, USA, USA... 🙂
 
Leukocyte said:
But once I start making money in Medicine, I plan on buying and flying my own Cessna Citation (cheapist Jet).
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Got bad news for ya, Dude.

Not on a doctors income.

Ya gotta be jet plane rich to own a jet, remember?
 
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