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Ok, so follow up questions. How goes she go about determining if she has a reasonable chance of passing the physical before it goes live? She knows it’s not severe and that the shunt is operational. How does one figure out a cause when it started as an infant? As to the rate of progression, I...

No DISrespect, but I will wait for an opinion from someone I DO respect.

I was contacted by a lady who has hydrocephalus. She saw somewhere that I had had hydrocephalus. But unlike my case, hers is ongoing. She wants to become a professional pilot. Is it possible for her to get a First Class medical? She did a consultation and was told that it would get...

Yeah, that REALLY sucks, if you are talk about what I think you are.

You assume she would take the airlines. Private charter would be the way to go for her.

I can attest to that. I spent many years as a senior 777 First Officer during one of those downturns.

No need to. Apparently it’s a generational thing. You speak a language that is one or two generations younger than me. ;)

I had to ask my son to explain that to me. Sigh

By the job and no. My dad made his living as a trim carpenter. He charged basically by the job. He was able to do quality work faster than the competitors. He made the same amount per job as his competitors but could do more jobs in the same amount of time.

Is there an empirical data to support that? Just how much moisture can condense out of cold air? Or is it something else that causes the issue?

Yeah that.

I realized that after I posted that.

For a lot of major airline airplanes, the top of the wings cannot be SEEN by the flight crew. For a lot of things in the Majors world, it is a shared responsibility between the flight crew and other departments.

I don’t remember where I saw this, but FWIW, Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines, said that they are reevaluating current and future orders of Boeing products.

Who knows? Maybe they do have a clean slate design just waiting for the right time.

No need to use a new logbook. The time you have counts as total time. You just need to fill in the blanks.

There is a grandfather clause there in (i)(2), Mark. I do not have an endorsement because of it.

I’m embarrassed. I knew that. :mad:

Kind of reminds me of Abe Lincoln’s axe that he cut down the proverbial cherry tree with. Over the subsequent years, the handle had been replaced three times and the head twice.

Wow!