Originally Posted by CX500T

I suffer daily from the military version of this.. Short story, a female minority student while being held to the same standards, was given basically unlimited chances to make standards. She ****ed up bad in a helicopter on a "student solo". I was the other student.

I have 4 broken vertabrae, two which are fused and locked in with a titanium cage, more titanium in my legs than Darth Vader, had my face re-arranged and spent months learning to walk again after flatlining in the OR 3 times. I'm up to something like 36 surgeries, some big, some small, between the initial keep me from dying and being paralyzed emergency surgery, and a ton of follow up stuff.

She, of course walked out of it with nothing but a sore back. Like how the drunk drivers usually survive the crashes where they kill a family.

She never would have made it that far into the program if she was a guy.

Now imagine that with a 737 full of passengers.

As you can imagine, my medical renewal is FUN every 6 months. It's like 4 days of tests before I even see the AME.

Used to be worse. Thank god Dr. Chein convinced the FAA that most of the orthopedic injuries are a one time demonstration of ability and done.