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Originally Posted by sweet release
G~Man...are you a pilot or something
okay.. i probably sound stupid, because you must be some kind of pilot.. but how did you get in to flying, and do you fly comercial airlines or work for something along the lines of the army
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Yep---I fly helicopters for a living, primarily contracted to the US Forest Service. I started at age 18 when I joined the Air Force, but was not a pilot---I flew in the back operating mission equipment hunting submarines. As the cold war ended, I got out in 1990, and paid for my own helicopter training at a civilian flight school. I then worked for the school as an instructor for a while, and have since done lots of different things ranging from flying for NBC in San Francisco, a sheriff department, tours in Hawaii for 7 years, and have been flying fire contracts full time now for just over five years.....
Me on a fire:
