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Paramedics are the best. Having been a former member of a bush fire brigade, I used to almost faint at some of the things I saw in road accidents. I don't do blood, but had to in that job. They are amazing. As for pilots, they are actually non existent, locked on the flight deck since 9/11 they are no longer visible, and can only be seen in the terminal. Not like the great days when you had visitors to the flight deck, and enjoyed it, talking to different people and really enjoying the kids. God only knows how many kids thought, this is for me, and gone on to join us. No longer possible. People now just hope the mystery person up the front knows what they are doing. For me that is not progress.
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I think doctors should be top of the list....that is if you have had a prostrate exam the old way...
Or was it some thing like doctors bury their mistakes one at a time and pilots die with a whole bunch screaming in the back....
Any vote for the cabin crew ? They have to clean up the awful mess we create every time we hit turbulence....
Or was it some thing like doctors bury their mistakes one at a time and pilots die with a whole bunch screaming in the back....
Any vote for the cabin crew ? They have to clean up the awful mess we create every time we hit turbulence....
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Pilots are massively overpaid...
It's one of the only "professions" that doesn't require a real formal education... just a bucket of cash to pay the flying clubs. It's a waste of beer money!
No 1 for pilots should be Aircraft Engineers
It's one of the only "professions" that doesn't require a real formal education... just a bucket of cash to pay the flying clubs. It's a waste of beer money!
No 1 for pilots should be Aircraft Engineers
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Anything that does not need to take a running jump to get into the air, I am suspicious of. Anyway they say being a Helicopter Pilot is like having sex with a 
. Fun at the time, but would rather not talk about it.
. Fun at the time, but would rather not talk about it.
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At the risk of sounding like a snob
Having served in the ADF
A good gauge is whether or not it is taught at uni as a profession.
(Nah..FB, don't rise to the bait of the whiteants, Fifth Columnists, revisionists, and pansies. After leaving school at 16 to work, then getting that Commercial at 23 and being professional for the next 40 years doesn't change what you were. Those doctor fellows could always ask for specialist second (or third, or fourth) opinions if in doubt, and the new officers were brainwashed during their OC course, but you did it by yourself in real time most of the time, so just let it ride....)
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I always laugh at the "real formal education" wakkers.
Plenty of them who have never been to Uni and think it is the ultimate educator.
Plenty with degrees working at Maccas or driving cabs.
Plenty of MBAs and Bch/Economics who ears less than even a cook or cleaner up at the mines. [shows how good their education was!]
Anyone who thinks they can make the "big bucks" in this industry simply by throwing money at a flying school really has no idea!
That said, it is possible now to pay for a jet job which once ,rightly or wrongly, was available only for about one in seven.
Plenty of them who have never been to Uni and think it is the ultimate educator.
Plenty with degrees working at Maccas or driving cabs.
Plenty of MBAs and Bch/Economics who ears less than even a cook or cleaner up at the mines. [shows how good their education was!]
Anyone who thinks they can make the "big bucks" in this industry simply by throwing money at a flying school really has no idea!
That said, it is possible now to pay for a jet job which once ,rightly or wrongly, was available only for about one in seven.
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A Doctor was speaking at a conference I attended, his take on universities was this: "90% of people who start a University course fail to finish, those who complete Doctorates are not necessarily smart, just persistent!" 
I'm sure the term applies to those at your level frigate bird, but it certainly does not to a newly minted CPL the way it would to a recently graduated Lawyer, Medical Doctor or other who is charged with upholding the public interest.
For the record I think it's good that the military is down in the list. Some of the worst crime I have ever witnessed was perpetrated by defence members (Did someone say RAR fire sale? ).
For the record I think it's good that the military is down in the list. Some of the worst crime I have ever witnessed was perpetrated by defence members (Did someone say RAR fire sale?
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