The Most Dangerous Flying
12-19-2007 | 03:51 PM
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central america and mexico single pilot ifr in a light twin day and night. they don't have any ground based weather radar and the plane I flew didn't have a radar. Mexico has 18,000 foot mountains on the south end.
12-19-2007 | 07:07 PM
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From: Tiki bar
Flying skydivers is pretty risky... I had a lot of close calls in my two years as a jump pilot. Between shotty MX and climbing and descending all day in traffic make things pretty interesting.... just glad to be out of that business, as fun as it was....
12-19-2007 | 07:07 PM
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From: C-172
I don't know that it's dangerous, but BFI is certainly scary. Maybe I'm just a wimp, but I find the following scary:
- Have a humongous UPS jet come in for a landing within a few feet of me checking the fuel tanks on my C-172. Almost blew me right off my precarious perch.
- Wait behind the hot breath of a Gulfstream during takeoff and hope I still have my eyebrows.
- Seeing an Alaska MD-80 taking off from SEA and being almost underneath it shortly after my own takeoff. I still have not been able to get over the urge to follow one of those.
12-19-2007 | 10:03 PM
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From: B737 FO
The guy has crashed twice while crop dusting, he's 65 and still as bold as ever!
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