Originally Posted by
SuperBoy
We are police/safety officers onboard the aircraft.
How many times a year do you use the restraint kit?
We fight fires onboard the aircraft
A raging warehouse inferno is not really the same as an oven fire. Lets be honest, you only get a days training in how to put on a smoke hood and discharge some BCFs into an oven, lav, or behind a panel then a refresher every three years. It's stretching it a bit to compare yourself to a firefighter.
We get paid more than nurses and have to endure dealing with heart attacks, strokes etc. etc. on aircraft all over the WORLD without the facilities available to them.
Whats the big deal about doing it all over the WORLD? The aircraft could be somewhere over Scotland or somewhere over Africa, you still have the same resources on board. Sure you have first aid training, a medical kit (only half of which you can use), and an AED, but you also have the back up of fully qualified doctors and nurses at the end of the phone 24/7 and the first thing you do when the situation looks iffy is make a PA for any medically qualified staff on board. Why bother with that if you are better at dealing with these things than a nurse?
I think you are pushing this comparison thing a little far, especially as the fire training isn't actually any more complex than what I did for my Boy Scouts Firefighters badge (honestly, it isn't, and I did that when I was 14. Had to put a real chip pan fire out too!).