LSO called 3-wire trap touch and go. I spent 3 years on the flight deck of the USS Ranger in arresting gear! LoL

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Seriously? If you don't understand what is being said I hope you don't fly!

(Written on 2017/01/14)(Permalink)

How do you consider this "fake news". While it is not as dramatic as radio com during a dogfight in SE Asia it does give people an idea of what happens in the cockpit during a medical emergency. Nothing fake about it!

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Be interesting to watch a 737 buzz a water tower just to see what town he was over!

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I think there was an A-4 in the bogie mix too. Been a long time since I saw the movie.

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Maybe things have changed over the years but I was always taught power = altitude. If you pull back or push forward on the yoke to adjust decent rate you stand a chance of screwing it into the ground or coming in hot.

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So far Dennis I have not had a problem with it being low on Januvia even though a few weeks in it made it to 91 which was not a problem. There again, I have the benefit of 20 + years in health care and my wife was a nurse for 32 years. It is scary enough in the beginning even having the knowledge. Not knowing anything at all about it would be like a near stall on short final. I worked with a guy that had been on insulin since he was a kid. When he wouldn't answer his pages we knew to do a quick search for him. Invariably, he was down for the count!He kept the gel in his shirt pocket.

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preacher1 Have you tried Januvia? Just throwing it out there, not playing doctor by any stretch. I was on Metformin and thought it was gonna kill me and didn't work that well. Januvia works for me but everyone is different. 1 100mg tablet a day and I check level once a day. My A1C was 16 the day I was diagnosed and bs was 640 (I had been sick for a while and had lost 85 pounds. A1C stays around 6.5 and AM BS is 120-150. If you try it it takes a couple of week to stabilize and make sure it is in your insurance formulary as it is around $310.00 for a month supply.

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Not so short sighted Paul. The mental response for a patient going into DKA (Diabetic Keto-Acidosis) is much like hypoxia in that the person does not realize they are not as lucid as they should be. The pump is a great thing until it becomes disconnected. Had a very good friend die when hers was disconnected as she got into her car. A short 15 minute drive saw her go into DKA, go unconscious, her vehicle go into the lake and she drowned. It is the very real possibility of a person miscalculating a dosage or a myriad of other problems that can put both the pilot, passengers, and people on the ground at risk.

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