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I would like to thank you all especially Bob and John for your replies and assistance.
After some 4 years, ( due covid , time constraints, private practice etc, starting on and off ) I passed my flight test for PPL yesterday. I passed the theory from the textbooks and this forum.
It was always a wish to become a pilot and now that wish has been granted.
I wanted to fly for 3 reasons.
The first is I always wanted to be a pilot before becoming a doctor but my glasses excluded me from a RAAF career ( in those days).
Second I wanted to overcome a fear of turbulence. I have that now.
Third, and probably the most important, is I wanted to become a better doctor. It sounds curious, but the safety mechanisms put in place with threat and error management, and how to best mitigate this is amazing in the flying industry. It is not as robust in medicine and medicine has so much to learn from this. I wanted to adopt this into my practice and my practice is better for it. More doctors should fly.
I am so humbled by all my instructors. They are a fountain of knowledge and I have always had the attitude that I will always have so much to learn. For me I guess the learning begins and the learning will continues. For those in medicine, who are at the top of their profession, I suggest you all learn to fly. While you take to the skies, it gives you a most formidable grounding.
Kindest regards
Well done, Ravi. It cannot be an easy path to undertake an out of the day to day grind significant training program ... while still attending to the day to day stuff.
Re medicine and the HF thing, if I recall correctly, some very early similar techniques in medicine were a catalyst for the development of the discipline in aviation, going back, now, around 70 years or so. I think it quite evident that, for any high risk discipline, having the head ahead of the gameplan can only help achieve a better outcome. When the aircraft gets ahead of the driver, and if workload ramps up considerably, it is all too easy to end up just being along for the ride and the all too frequent mishap.
Engineering specialist in aircraft performance and weight control.
