Originally Posted by lzakplt
I sound more like an accountant than a pilot? Congratulations, you may be on the cusp of understanding what I tried politely to point out 31 posts ago. Maybe the words I used were too big. Read this next line carefully. Commercial aviation has changed since you left this state.
Still, perhaps your company has changed but I know from friends who still work up there that little has changed as far as lodge and hunter 135 flying goes. I also would like to mention again that Alaska goes through periods when it is conservative and times when they push it. Lucky for you that things sound easier.
You can't sit on one corner of the state working for one company and claim that the entire state has changed. When the WX is bad for days on end and there are hunters afield who ran out of food days ago you find a way to get there. When someone has a life threatening injury and needs to be medevaced to ANC you get there. When the mail contains someones life sustaining medication someone makes it happen. And finally if you are flying a single engine piston plane on the sunniest day of the year you are still in danger and no amount of book learning, rule following geekism will save you it the engine decides to explode.
Try coming down here and working for a garden variety regional airline or jet charter outfit and you will witness rule bending from time to time inorder to get through the day.
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