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what is the best way to get on ccatt team? I was CCATT many years ago, but back then you had to have recent critical care experience (it was additional duty for us.) So take an assignment to an ICU or moonlight to get about 4,000 hours ICU experience. Most of us were CCRN certified, the extra training helps. You must be fluent with all the equipment, the medications and appropriate disease processes, be able adaptable, have adequate physical strength to carry your equipment (my extended bag was 65 lbs) and endurance to fly 24-48+ hour missions. You must be fully prepared to fly with a physician and RT who have little experience. You must be able to manage critical care patients from head to toe, tertiary care in the air manage. Meaning manage without all the bells and whistles of ICU, you make due with what you have. When you have a 12 hour flight, you are the IT, there is no pulling over or calling anyone. We received no flight pay, no wings, crew rest did not apply to us, we often started a mission at the end of a 12 hour night shift. We had lots of work and long hours/days/weeks with no glory, but it was worth many times the effort. You will get to do what others can only dream of. Fly to exotic far off lands, meet and intubate strange new people. Any Plane, Any Place. We Fly So They May Live.