I’ve seen pretty horrible accidents with people that had their feet on the dash or even out the window. Once I told a couple of those to the GF and made her gag, she never did it again.

With 100k/year on training per mechanic, I genuinely wonder how much they’re paid.

My UK passport has always made it so seamless, but now I don’t know what will happen. It could even be simpler as a Canadian... I guess time will tell.

To be honest I use Car2go quite often, and as much as the Fortwo is a horrible car that I would never own, to be able to go across the city fast and for less money than an Uber is pretty great. The Smart is good for that taxi alternative, I admit it isn’t good for much else, but for that exact purpose I don’t have…

Well, kind of. Thing is, once you get a work visa and/or permanent resident permit, after a little time period you get healthcare.

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Paramedic, have done many stays in our 911 call center, one of my great friends has worked in it for 7 years. First off, try to be as calm as you can.

Try to see if Mr. Otto would have one of those sought-after skills. Bringing along your spouse works at that point. Canada, like the US, is very different from one province to another and from one city to another. Maybe not Texas vs. Vermont levels, but still. Or move to Burlington VT which to me might as well be…

Yeah, everytime Americans run to say “if [whatever] I’m moving to Canada!” I think about how ridiculously difficult it is to get approved for immigration here. Much, much more difficult than the US.

That insurance is for drugs, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability and life, as well as private rooms at the hospital. See mutual insurance plans. Yeah, many do cover private clinic visits, diagnostic testing and all, which is fine. Need to go to the ER, end up there for 20 hours? Yeah that’ll be 0$…

It’s crap when you don’t really need it all that much. If I have to go to the ER, trust me, it’s urgent enough that I haven’t stepped in a waiting room for over a decade. And when I need to see a GP I get an appointment the day before, and again never had to wait more than 15-20 minutes.

And find a good company with a good mutual plan (I mean, many higher-up jobs but also cashiers at Costco) and you’ll get 70-80% coverage on all prescription drugs with a cap at $150/month, 70-80% dental, long-term and short term disability, life... for nothing/month.

CBRNE paramedic here. Pretty solid advice, I’ll add that when you see “regular” emergency services (think police, EMS, firefighters without self-contained HazMat suits) do NOT run out to them - they don’t know what to do much more than you do.

Not that they’re funny, there’s just an incredible amount of redundancy in a modern airliner. They’re incredibly complex, but the goal is to achieve something as safe and reliable as possible.

There’s a red beacon under the fuselage that’s flashing from just before engine start to after shutdown. But the spiral is a zero-cost additional safety feature. Beacons are controlled by the pilots, they could forget.

You do realize that most of what you ask (describing incidents, specific procedures) is either classified or illegal for me to disclose...

CBRNE paramedic. Have a RadEye G-10 on my belt everytime I step out of the station.

There’s a huge difference between Mach .935 and Mach 2. Regardless, I wouldn’t mind going from Mach .935 to .925 for the comforts of a Global 7000. Or even to .90 for a Falcon.