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Safe and boring would get my vote too. I work with a ton of pilots and various airport admin staff. I bet he can find a small airport nearby to help manage if he wants to stay plugged in to aviation but needs more of a safe challenge. Airport boards, part time ops staff, it all takes people knowledgeable in aviation. It might help scratch that itch without the downsides. I'm not a pilot, but I hear them talk, often about firefighting ops. You think get-home-itis is bad, gotta-save-the-town-itis puts pilots in bad spots too.

YOLO

Go fight fires

I'm a pilot. In the hierarchy of aviation jobs corporate flying is usually pretty far up the ladder, depending upon the company. Aerial firefighting isn't, the companies that do it are usually kind of shady and the aircraft left over poorly maintained hulks of crap that aren't useful for much else. Boredom, or lack of it, is a dumb reason to choose a job. You choose a job because it pays you well, opportunities for advancement, gives good benefits and time off, and gives you a good quality of life. Dumping a good job to take a job with some fly by night outfit (pardon the pun) isn't very smart. If he wants excitement then tell him to take up skydiving or snake handling, it's a poor justification for a career.

If he survives and gets tired of the firefighting thrills he can always go back to corporate or airline flying. The demand for pilots is tremendous.

If you are talking about the land fill outside of Anchorage, did you know you can see that thing from up at Site Summit ? It wasn't there in 1976. If it was it was pretty small.

kwg

Maybe it's been mentioned I did not read it. Fly a spray planes spraying crops.. that'll test your nuts anyway..
Or maybe a helicopter sawing the limbs on powerline right away don't have a phone signal put the picture right now but that is some awesome s*** and big money.

The one with better pay benefits and time off. Boring is less stressfulI am near retirement though.

After a couple of mostly outdoor type jobs in my field I tried an indoor job because I was interested in that end of the business. The trips to various facilities in other States were the highlight of what became a very boring friggen job, with too many rules, restrictions on what I could wear (no shorts in a 72F environmnent? My nuts was sweaty all day and no ventilation!) , and the bosses were there all the time too.

I couldn't "stomach it" as you say.

I don't need crashing into hillsides type of excitement necessarily, but something to keep the blood flowing and brain working is important.