Alexia Hartmann, flight attendant: "On ambulance flights, we don't fly with flight attendants; we explain the safety and evacuation rules to the other passengers."

Alexia Hartmann is an air medic who uses social media to raise awareness of her work. Through her videos, she attempts to address and explain certain health concerns, and in one of her latest videos, she delves deeper into her profession.

In this post, he shared several interesting facts about being an air doctor with his audience. Some of them answer the most frequently asked questions he receives, from how airplanes work to how they're organized.

"On ambulance flights, we don't fly hostesses with us; we're the ones who explain the safety and evacuation rules to the other passengers," he explains as a first interesting point.

“In the world of emergencies and aviation, we use the international radio alphabet to communicate,” the doctor points out. This is also related to the time zone issue: “During a repatriation, we normally travel through many time zones, and to avoid confusion, we set the initial departure time on our monitor and use it as a guide.”

"On very long repatriations, we usually take turns resting for even fifteen minutes, since it's so noisy inside the plane that we don't usually hear the monitor alarms. There always has to be at least one person attentive to everything that's happening," he comments on the breaks.

He also emphasizes external security every time they land at a new destination. "At every airport, a local police car comes to check our passports directly on the plane," he explains.

"When you get medication intravenously in a hospital, it reaches your body thanks to gravity. This doesn't work very well on airplanes, so we usually connect all our fluids to pumps that push the contents into your body," concludes Alexia Hartmann.