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Old 22nd Jun 2004, 18:33
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V-5. There are a lot of flying jobs that are very much tougher than anything you describe and they are very much enjoyed, partly because they are hard work and involve very special skills. Try flying out to an oil rig in a helicopter in the middle of a November gale to do a medevac. No comfy cockpit and you have to wear survival gear, as on every oil rig flight. Try crop spraying or fighting forest fires from a CL-215 where you lose around 20% of the gross weight of the aeroplane in around five seconds. It is all hand flying close to the ground in turbulent air with no external navigation facilities. I guess that no one has ever complained about that sort of work.
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