near air to air misses, actual air to air accidents, fires, road accidents...
I flew one of the Traffic Watch helicopters in the LA area in California for a week when I was hour building. For those who don't know, they fly over the freeways during rush hours, reporting on traffic conditions for the radio stations. Well, we saw lots of road accidents, a frightening number really. But when you consider that we were looking for them, in the sense that if there was an obvious traffic snarl-up we headed for it to see what was happening, I suppose it's not surprising. Scary though.
If considering "amazing things", I've never forgotten, several years ago now, flying through a completely circular rainbow, over the Valleys in South Wales. I thought it was amazing then, and I still do.
Oh yes, looked down once to find the Red Arrows a few hundred feet beneath me too. Marvelled at them, then wondered if I was supposed to be there or not.
