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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,977
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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
I always why one needed an Instrument Rating to fly 100' off the deck through smoke (in total violation of Instrument Flight Rules Minimum Safe Altitudes, etc.) but whatever - it was a requirement for the job.
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Fires are not always in your back yard, so you need to know how to fly IFR to get to the area where the fires are located. Plus its a frigging insurance requirement.
More and more our lives are being run by lawyers and insurance companies...
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