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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.
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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.
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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.
Let's Go Brandon! FJB
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I sure as hell wouldn't recommend it.....but some one has to do it.
Did he have enough time to qualify for helicopters?
Most feds or vets dont. Snakeskin wtf you been upto?? Me just chilling found some tortilla chips this morning. They moved me to the pit. Where all the garbage trucks go to dump the trash. So funny story how I snagged this bag. The garbage bag ripped when it came out of garbage truck. I’m sitting watching and that’s when I spied this bag of chips, I was like Yahtzee!!! Ok not a funny story but you get it.. Anyhow snake talk to you later! 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
For liberals and anarchists, power and control is opium, selling envy is the fastest and easiest way to get it. TRR. American conservative. Never trust a white liberal. Malcom X Current NRA member.
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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.
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The one with better pay benefits and time off. Boring is less stressfulI am near retirement though.
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Sorta off topic. I had to go to an office building Wednesday. These people were there. They sit in padded chairs. There's heating and air conditioning. Cold and hot potable water. There was no dust. It was quiet. No traffic at all. Didn't see anything that could fall, rip, shred, burn, blind, mame, mangle, explode, suffocate... Boring looked pretty darn swell if you can stomach it. 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.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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