Laverda - Odds and sods from the WWW

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Mr Motorcycle Dismantlers on Smart Rd St Agnes here in Adelaide. Go in there often for all sorts of goodies.
Bloody good bloke runs the place. I'll ask him next time I'm in what the front comes off.
 
Said his business is booming when I asked him how the pandemic was affecting things. Lots of people doing catch-up jobs on their bikes whilst in isolation.
 
https://www.flightglobal.com/opinion/the-art-of-reinvention-is-vital-for-discarded-flightcrew/139573.article
 
Haggis said:
https://www.flightglobal.com/opinion/the-art-of-reinvention-is-vital-for-discarded-flightcrew/139573.article
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They get paid enough that they should be able to survive for a good twenty years before running out of money.

I worked out with a friend of mine (who is an airline pilot) that they get paid about $60,000 an hour if you only count the time they have their hands on the controls. I worked out that if I got paid that same way for flying a helicopter that I would make about $30,000,000 per year.

Jim
 
Yeah Jim,
Heard that one before. If you divide their salary by the number of other people's lives that they are responsible for, then it's the helicopter jockeys who are being overpaid.
 
The Sock said:
Yeah Jim,
Heard that one before. If you divide their salary by the number of other people's lives that they are responsible for, then it's the helicopter jockeys who are being overpaid.
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Not to mention anaesthetists.
My hourly wage was 2 or 3 times the minimum wage. And I was probably responsible for the lives of quite a few people.
Planes can fly themselves. They often have to when the pilots are pissed. Even a hysteric airline hostess can land one. Plenty of films to prove it.

Paul
 
I retired a 'good pilot'. That's one with the same number of take-offs as landings.
I also never had a death recorded under my command, though there were a couple of close ones in my air-ambulance flying days.
 
The Sock said:
Yeah Jim,
Heard that one before. If you divide their salary by the number of other people's lives that they are responsible for, then it's the helicopter jockeys who are being overpaid.
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That's a good one .... but are the pilots really responsible? Take away the computers and autoland and so on and I'll give you that one. Pretty soon the pilots will have a new name ....... flight monitors.

Jim
 
Paul Marx said:
Not to mention anaesthetists.
My hourly wage was 2 or 3 times the minimum wage. And I was probably responsible for the lives of quite a few people.
Planes can fly themselves. They often have to when the pilots are pissed. Even a hysteric airline hostess can land one. Plenty of films to prove it.

Paul
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I used to tell people I was a better pilot drunk than most are sober ...... then I could tell who was paying attention to the safety briefing.

No films that I know of where someone lands a helicopter when the pilot passes out.

Jim
 
The Sock said:
I retired a 'good pilot'. That's one with the same number of take-offs as landings.
I also never had a death recorded under my command, though there were a couple of close ones in my air-ambulance flying days.
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I have a lot of respect for the air-ambulance job ........ but not for some of the attitudes in USA (don't know what it's like in other countries). Too much save the patient at all costs ....... including their own aircraft. I have an acquaintance who is a safety consultant for HEMET work in USA. He is appalled at some of the attitudes and actions.

Jim
 
Paul Marx said:
Not to mention anaesthetists.
My hourly wage was 2 or 3 times the minimum wage. And I was probably responsible for the lives of quite a few people.
Paul
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Things must be pretty different there Paul.  I recall recently seeing one of those dodgy reports in the news of the highest wage earners and anesthetists topped the lot, almost AU$400k/year.  I just googled the minimum wage here is apparently $19.84/hr, so if you were on 3 times that, call it $60/hr, 40 hours a week = $125k/yr.  Factor of 3 more than what you reckon you were paid?  A medical specialist usually earns a bloody comfortable life most places.
 
breganzane said:
Things must be pretty different there Paul.  I recall recently seeing one of those dodgy reports in the news of the highest wage earners and anesthetists topped the lot, almost AU$400k/year.  I just googled the minimum wage here is apparently $19.84/hr, so if you were on 3 times that, call it $60/hr, 40 hours a week = $125k/yr.  Factor of 3 more than what you reckon you were paid?  A medical specialist usually earns a bloody comfortable life most places.
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Starting pay in French hospitals is under ?3000 a month rising to about ?6000 at the end of a career for a 60 to 80 hour week.
French minimum wage is around ?12 an hour net.

Private sector is another thing altogether.

Sometimes, I remember the arsehole who sent a comment when my bikes were burnt and a son set up a crowd funding. The comment was that I was rich and didn't need help. I wish I'd had that one at the end of a syringe. Accidents happen easily after a late night.

Paul
 
breganzane said:
Things must be pretty different there Paul.  <snip>
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As Paul says: in general, the medical profession here in France does not command the (often obscene) remunerations that you can find elsewhere in the world.

Paul will have to explain the 'whys and wherefores' for that.  Or rather someone else will have to explain the inflated salaries that exist elsewhere ...

P.s. The salaries of doctors, nurses, carers, paramedics, admin staff and other workers in hospitals and old people homes have just been raised - 1.5 million people all in.  Consequence of the Coronavirus epidemic.
 
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