WhyFi

Will do. I should have a much easier time getting out. I'm going to plan on doing my W'burg-RVA-W'burg ride this time around, too.

indyfabz

So this morning I heard a certain government official involved with the fight against the corona virus say that if you are young and healthy your chances of contracting the virus are low.

What doth our resident medical experts think about that?

abshipp 

Oh don't pretend you're going to be busy. My dad is an airline pilot, I know how much you guys work

All kidding aside, congrats on getting back in the airplane. I know it's still work, but at least you've got a better view out of the office window than most of us

MoAlpha

Substitute “dying from” for “contracting” and to can take it to the bank.

abshipp 

Our water finally got turned back on yesterday.

Wife and I have been staying at my parents' house the previous two nights while we waited on the city to fix it, and I've been going to sleep late, sleeping terribly, and have been a terribly irritable human being.

We finally got to sleep at our home last night, and I haven't slept that well in a long, long time

I'm in a much better mood this morning.

indyfabz

That's what I thought.

The claim was made by the person in charge of the U.S. response. Science and language are apparently hard for him.

MoAlpha

Well, I’m sure “contracting” has a specific legal definition. Is the official a lawyer?

abshipp 

And more importantly, I got to drink some actually decent coffee this morning.

indyfabz

He's the Vice President of the United States of America.

WhyFi

So expectations should be tempered, then, yeah?

MoAlpha

Lawyer. Might be an expert on contracts.

rjones28 

Minors not allowed to enter into contracts, so can't contract virus. Makes sense.

indyfabz

I drink good coffee every morning. I used to work with the now ex-wife of the guy who started the company. Rode with her a couple of times. She had a gorgeous steel De Rosa. Silver with red rims, hubs and headset.

bampilot06

Regional airline pilots are treated very different than mainline when it comes to our schedules.

Velo Vol 

I'd look elsewhere for health information. LOL

I don't know exactly how it works, but there's a back door way to get it through particular pharmacies. The bottles I've gotten cost no more than $10.

On day the Rx got sent to my regular local pharmacy. They called me and told me it was going to cost some ridiculous amount. I'm like, yeah no.

abshipp 

I'm not super picky about what I drink. Usually a light to medium roast in a drip machine. I don't have any real preference.

But I know that I want something better than the Hills Bro's that my folks drink.

Or the Folgers that's available at work.

abshipp 

Oh I know. You guys do work hard. Not trying to offend.

I was planning on being a pilot professionally until I burned out working on my instrument rating. I know that I didn't have the mental fortitude to make it a career.

Part of me wonders how things would have been different if I had a different airplane to learn in, though. At the time I was doing all of my IR training in a C140 with only 2 VORs and a glideslope. A small, slow, light airplane with super light control pressures and very limited instrumentation is definitely not the best platform. It's kind of like how I feel about vintage bikes, it's a romantic idea to learn to do things the "old fashioned way", but sometimes it just makes it harder than it has to be.

Heathpack 

I was reading a little about it and apparently the CDC is worried this be could be like the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Apparently the similarities are:
1. High rate of infection (similar to 1918 flu) even though many infections may be mild or inapparent (so for the individual not a huge problem but for the population, a big problem, because all those subclinically infected people spread the disease)
2. High fatality rate, similar to 1918 flu

I have friends who are Fox News types. They convinced the concern is unfounded media-driven liberal hysteria. Jeez.

Heathpack 

Which is to say: Veep got it wrong.

Sad!

Heathpack 

You are trying to get a job with a regional airline? Are you a former military pilot?

bampilot06

Been at the regionals 6 years will be at mainline in May.

WhyFi

Does it come from a place that's far away?

indyfabz

'Zactly. The asymptomatic people are not going to get the least/no attention yet can still spread it.

BTW...Should I stock up on cat food in case there is supply chain disruption?

Heathpack 

Kudos.

But watchout for coronavirus.

bampilot06

IR training was difficult. When I started I still had to do NDB approaches and I had a hard time wrapping my head around that one. It’s come along way since then. Most of my commercial training was done in a full glass cockpit 172, when I started flying the dash most of the those were old steam gauges.