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I just wanted to thank everyone here for their help. My post on the Forbes website has just been published: http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryhusten/2015/01/22/why-doctors-like-airline-pilots-should-not-be-completely-trusted/ I didn't get into a lot of detail about pilot training and...

Oh boy, don't get me started. I will try to use only the good analogies and throw out the bad ones. I hope this doesn't come out sounding the wrong way but no matter how you look at it doctors almost certainly kill more people than almost anyone else. But they also save more people than...

Thanks so much, iHenning. I think I have the basic information I now need. I really appreciate everyone's help. ... and I completely agree with your assessment. It's very hard to compare medical doctors and pilots since medicine and aviation are so different. Nevertheless I think there are...

Hi Guys, Thanks so much for all the responses. To clarify, I am only interested now in what already established, mid-career pilots for commercial carriers have to do to keep flying. And I'm not interested in the medical exam part of this process. I want to know how much and what type of...

Thanks, Adam. I'm not really concerned with the medical examination, though I'm sure that's an important concern of pilots. I'm really trying to figure out how much education, re-education, training, and testing the big commercial pilots need to undergo.

I am a medical journalist (www.cardiobrief.org) writing an article about the maintenance of certification requirements for physicians. I would like to compare their current requirements (very controversial) with the current requirements for commercial airline pilots. How much training...