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Doctor, albeit with an interest in programming and electronics. No specialty as yet. Am I really the only one here?

Would be a first for aviation if you were.

EGTK Oxford

Am I really the only one here?

There's a lady doctor in my other club. Good to know when one is going to perform non-canonical manoevres (sp?) ...

EBZH Kiewit, Belgium

We have four doctors here in the Dyce Flying Club! Two are AMEs and one is an ATPL (retired)

YPJT, United Arab Emirates

Doctor, albeit with an interest in programming and electronics. No specialty as yet. Am I really the only one here?

Would be a first for aviation if you were.

This reminds me of the time when I was loitering in the clubhouse at my airfield, and a Doctor (Medical Doctor) sat one of the exams and failed. You wouldnt believe me if I told you it was - Human Performance and Limitations.

I would - pretty much anybody who has ever failed that exam has been a physician.

Just as most aeronautical engineers tend to be fairly marginal on the technical papers.

We all know too much - the only way to pass those exams is to think into the examiners head, rather than get frustrated looking for the right answer.

G

[banter]Doctor of Philosophy in aerospace engineering, not a physician, many of whom don't have doctoral level degrees. [/banter]

Boffin at large
Various, southern UK.

You wouldnt believe me if I told you it was - Human Performance and Limitations.

No suprise there. That material is garbage. It was compiled from behavioural theories which never got real consensus, dating from the 1960s and possibly 1970s, so anybody who actually knows the current stuff is going to get most of it wrong. It's also a small exam (24 questions IIRC) so it's easy to get 100% (I did it once on a mock exam) and equally easy to get just 17 right which is a fail (71%).

I know of several flying AMEs or medical consultants. One pilot (had both fixed and rotary) does boob jobs

Administrator
Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

I know of several flying AMEs or medical consultants.

My AME is an fanatic pilot and he's obese, got high blood pressure and generally doesn't look healthy. I think if he considers himself to be medically fit for flying, I should have no problem getting my medicals

Just as most aeronautical engineers tend to be fairly marginal on the technical papers.

Here in Germany I did not have to take the technical subjects when doing the ATPL exams. My ph.d (spelt "Dr". in german, just like the medical one) in aerospace engineering was sufficient to convince our aeronautical authority. Saved me a lot of ebarrassment ;-)

But that was my previous occupation for about 20 years. Most of it consisted of technical software development in a variety of fields from satellite radar imaging - my original specialisation being space technology - over wave propagation modeling for mobile network planning to CAD/CAM. The latter as freelance sub-subcontractor for a very large European company making very large European aeroplanes. Especially the largest one was designed using a few lines of code that I wrote (in FORTRAN, which will always be my favorite programming language). In my spare time I gradually got my flying licenses and flew commercially on piston twins and as instructor beside the engineering work. In 1992 a buddy from the flying school and I started an air taxi operation that we ran throughout the 90ies until we surrendered to JAR-OPS and let our AOC expire. We were simply too small to be profitable under JAR/EU-OPS, even if we still would have had 6 aircraft under our AOC as in our best years 1997/98. During that time I co-owned two of our aircraft, a C421 and a Pa44 (not flown commercially but used for training and leased to a flying school). This was sufficient to convince me that aircraft ownership is not one of the greater pleasures in life... Nothing, not even a lottery win, will make me ever buy a piece of an aeroplane again.

Now I consider myself semi-retired by flying a corporate Citation as part-time employee. All the pleasures of flying with somebody else paying the bills and fighting the windmills for getting P-RNAV approval. And enough spare time for the occasional flight as instructor on piston singles and twins.

EDDS - Stuttgart

Group finance manager in large civil engineering company.

Working as a freelance project member at a large Bank where we are building a system to calculate Market Risk based on Monte Carlo methods. Calculation is done using GPU's.

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