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Old 18th Dec 2015, 21:12
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Gomer Pylot
 
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Revenue has never been a concern of mine, in any sense. There are always other jobs if this one folds. I want to accept flights because that's my job, and I like it. If I didn't want to fly, I would have had another career. It's certainly easier to accept a flight than turn one down, and I've always looked for a way to get it done, safely and legally. But I've never been questioned about turning down a flight in EMS. I cannot say the same about refusing flights in the Gulf of Mexico. There was far more commercial pressure to take flights there than in EMS. I've seen pilots lose jobs because they refused to fly in the GOM. Both the helicopter company managers and the oil company personnel have pushed and insisted that a flight had to be made, no matter the weather conditions. I haven't seen that in EMS.
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