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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
If you don't think flying airplanes can be dangerous, go fly some of the aircraft/routes I used to fly in the Pacific Northwest. . . Nothing like flying in solid (and I mean SOLID) IFR, icing, wind shear, turbulence, etc. Often at night over mountainous terrain in 40-year-old freighters with minimal avionics and "INOP" stickers all over the place.
All so some title companies could get their last-minute work out and not get sued. Stuff like that.
It most certainly IS (or at least CAN BE) dangerous.
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I certainly agree that being a pilot can be dangerous and some missions are much more dangerous than others. Helicopter ops, power line inspection, Ag ops, freight hauling into short unimproved fields. I just don't see piloting/flying as inherently dangerous as firefighting where just leaving the barn puts you in harms way.
This thread could as easily have been about teachers or postal workers or any government employee. Bottomline is that the system is fuched up and while LB may be on the brink of disaster, the same holds true for many other communities in CA and the nation.