Whats your back-up plan? (lose medical)

[Please Hire Me]

If you lost your medical what is your back-up plan? I haven't really thought about mine yet, but then again I haven't even started my career. Just looking for ideas...

 

[chperplt]

If you lost your medical what is your back-up plan?

Ask my wife very nicely to get a second job

 

[AK737FO]

Super Size!

Would you like frys with that?

or maybe just sell the house and cars, move out into the bush, grow a beard help the state ride itself of its wolf overpopulation (while earning about $300 per pelt).

Loosing my medical is a very scary idea. And needless to say I have no idea what I would do for a living if I couldn't drive jets...

 

[350DRIVER]

1)I would marry one Rich B!tc$ and have 0 worries or concerns 2)If that would fail I probably would go into cardiology since I still have "age" on my side. I would give option #1 my all though before I looked into any other avenues. ! !

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[RockyMnt1]

Losing one's medical

Better start thinking now. It happened to me very unexpectedly. Don't put all of you eggs in one basket. Like everything else in flying, always have a Plan B that you are willing to execute.

A relative of mine (flew for Eastern) was working under his car. A small spring sprung right into his eye. End of flying career. It doesn't take much and can happen in the weirdest ways.

By the way, quadruple bypasses and cancer don't necessarily mean that you can't get a medical. A freind had the heart problems. He now has a 1st class medical. I have cancer and I have a 2nd class.

 

[bigD]

I plan on either moving back to the San Fernando Valley and getting involved in the porn industry, or continue here pimping the Austin metropolitan area. The economy has really hurt the pimping industry here, but the PUA (Pimps Union of America) has just scored us a sweet dental plan, so that's a plus.

 

[HappyFlying]

If I ever do get to quit my "real" job to fly full time I will keep my professional license up just in case doo-doo occurs. I too hold a second class medical after having had metastatic cancer. The doc I get my medical from was instrumental in getting it through OK City. I had to jump through enough hoops but I finally got it. My oncologist was amazed that his pilot patients are all more worried about losing their medicals than dying.

 

[chperplt]

I plan on either moving back to the San Fernando Valley and getting involved in the porn industry

DigD

What part of the valley are you from?? I spent 15 years in Simi..

 

[bigD]

chperplt - I grew up in Woodland Hills before coming out to Austin for college. Did my private over at Camarillo then flew from Van Nuys for awhile.

 

[bobbysamd]

College

I like 350's answer.

That aside, that's another good reason why you need to get your four-year degree. Notwithstanding the fact (and it is a fact) that without one the majors will look askance at you, there is no better backup plan.

I really do like an Aeronautical Science major and believe that there is a quite a bit that you can do with it apart from flying. But, the important thing is to get a B.S. or B.A. in something. A B.S. in Meteorology is also a great aviation-oriented degree that gives you a science background. You could teach physics or geology with that degree. I knew of a few people who majored in Computer Science.

When you have a college degree there is always something you can do. You should have one. You need one, anyway. Get one.