It is good to be back after ten days away, but I have a confession to make. I spent the last week in Oklahoma City going through the Aviation Medical Examiners course. I have been a USAF flight surgeon in a previous life, and was missing it. Anyway, I did not think about big bore rifles, ammunition or ballistics for five straight days. I'm sorry, and I won't let it happen again.
My favorite part was checking out the FAA Toxicology Laboratory. After every fatal airplane crash tissue samples are scraped up with a putty knife (or a sponge) and sent to the tox lab. Basically, anything that was ingested prior to the crash shows up. 6-8% of the pilots in general aviation wrecks have alcohol on board. That number was four times higher back in the 1960's.
lawndart

Welcome back lawndart.
Your witty repartee has been missed.
Glad to see you back.

Oh Oh, may have met you in my past life as a pilot!

lawndart,
Since you mentioned it, and others might be interested:

How many hours of CME credit do you get for the AME course???

On line physiology review - 7 hours
Written physiology review - 6 hours
The course itself - 32.5 hours
Total - 45.5 hours CME

The course itself is free. I only had to pay for travel and lodging.

It was easily the best CME I have ever attended. The speakers were world class.

lawndart

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Oh Oh, may have met you in my past life as a pilot!

May very well have. I spent most of my time as a pilot. I just switched to the medical corps at the end to pick up another rank for retirement. The next time I'm down there or you are up here we'll compare notes.

lawndart