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Old 2nd Feb 2016, 11:06
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500e
 
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Crab good post, danger has levels you draw a line for your self as long as it does not impinge on others.

"Is flying close to the ground inherently 'dangerous'? clearly not because it is happening around the world all the time. Does it carry extra risk? Most certainly, or we would all be smashing around at 5' and 140 kts because that would be lots of fun.

However, most of us want to go home to our wives and family at the end of the day so such additional risks as wirestrike, inadvertent contact with the ground, birdstike, catastrophic mechanical failure (including engine failure) are taken into consideration and the sliding scale of risk (in this case lower and faster) is modified by our willingness to take on that extra risk and our reasons for doing so."
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