avbug said:
How clintonesque of you. In that case, your questions have been answered, and your thin skinned replies out of place, as well as out of joint.
You answered 2 out of 4. I guess that's as good as I'll get out of you.
If one is no longer medically capable of flying for a living, does one encourage one's employer to pay to find another venue? I don't know any aviation employers that after hiring a pilot will retrain them in another field and support them for two years while they obtain that new training...I'm sure there's a good samaritan out there somewhere.
I never said I had a flying job, but in any case, my employer does have a clearly defined reimbursement plan. Not sure if the benefit extends to our charter pilots (different division of the company) but I'm not too concerned about them at this point. I also didn't ask you if you knew of any companies that would pay for higher education, either. The implied question was, if your employer paid, would it be worth doing.
If one has lost one's medical certification for commercial flying, does one then seek two years worth of training to become a mechanic, and work on the equipment one can no longer fly? Answered, but again, you didn't like the answer. Perhaps it wasn't what you wanted to hear.
Never the original question, seeing as I can't or don't fly them in the first place.
Does one seek a master's degree from Embry Riddle? To what end? To seek a teaching job somewhere? Again your question is what one does when one "flunks" a medical exam for certification for flying with commercial privileges.
To get a job, silly. I don't know many people that start their 4 year degree knowing for sure who they are going to work for when they graduate. The same applies to my situation -- there's nothing outside of my current career endeavor that I'm actually just dying to do. Had that been the case, I would not have bothered to ask the populace for their collective opinion.
While a masters degree might make you a little more marketable in your chosen field (experience counts spades over academic achievement in most endevors), why go to Embry riddle?
Company pays, it's convenient, and I can get into the program. Three reasons. If you looked at question 4 before you went off on your tirade, you'll notice that question was a bit more open ended.
And what employer of a pilot who has just lost his or her medical certification to fly commercially, is then going to pay to send that pilot (whom the employer can no longer use as a pilot) to school for higher education? Embry riddle or otherwise?
Donno, don't care either. The question I posed was specific to my situation (even though it was worded in the "you" form). Again, I never said I was employed as a pilot. You might have inferred it, but I never implied it. If you were to ask that question outside the context of this discussion, I would have either remained silent, or offered that my employer may offer it, I would have to look. Again, this point is moot in reference to my personal situation.
I don't care if you fly commercially or not. I don't care if you fly for fun, or if you just fly things around your bathtub and pretend to be a pilot. That's not what you asked when you posted your question to start the thread, and the topic is what one does when one has "flunked" one's medical examination. Specifically, you ask about an alternate career, on a pilot forum, when one has "flunked" one's medical exam (clarified by you to at least a second class privilege...though if you "flunk" the exam, you flunk the exam...
I'm glad we can agree on something. At least when I fly the little airplane in the bathtub, I don't have to worry about the cost of fuel or the financial health of the company operating the airplane and potentially paying my wages.
Your question then asks what a pilot flying commercially does when he or she loses the ability to do so based on the inability to retain medical certification
Actually, no, that's not what the question asked. The question made no presumption of current employment on behalf of the audience upon which it was posed. One may have the intention of flying for a career, discover that he/she cannot qualify for a second class medical, in which case, he/she would then seek an alternate career. Apparently, I'm not the only one who lacks reading comprehension skills.
...the question was answered.
If you say so. I asked four questions, got half-arse responses to two, yet you still left the general question unanswered.
When you're done backpeddling through your various definitions and self-indignance, do take time to read the replies you've been given, instead of argue. Though it would likely be an accident, you might learn something.
If that's what you want to call it, fine, but you can't really formulate a strong argument if your only defense is that your comprehension of the English language is not as strong as the person with whom you are conversing.
