Pilot Second Most Dangerous Job

[zawillif]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/08/11/levs.deadliest.jobs.cnn

 

[SBD]

Well now it's confirmed, we're all nuckin futs!

 

[FlySacto]

Thank God your post title is wrong. Deep in their website it gave a list with "pilots" being third with 68 deaths. I find that number hard to believe as being professional pilots killed while working.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Well now it's confirmed, we're all nuckin futs!

Unfortunately, nobody shives a git about us.

 

[MarineGrunt]

When you're flying with me, it sure as sh!t is.....

 

[Gr82Aviate]

When you're flying with me, it sure as sh!t is.....

So I've been told...

 

[PositionandHold]

Of course it's dangerous. You'll starve to death on first year regional pay.

 

[dav8or]

Of course it's dangerous. You'll starve to death on first year regional pay.

Or go to a major and take the 50k cut in pay and yor wife will kill you.

 

[zasca]

We gotta thank all those bush pilots and freight dogs for keeping the death toll high so we can still throw that little stat around to impress the grandmas and drunk chicks at the beer garden... This is a MANLY job, darn toootin!!!

 

[ksu_aviator]

I find it hard to believe that law enforcement and construction is less dangerous than flying.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

You're dangerous!

 

[AiRegency]

Zaska nailed it. It's the bush pilots, crop dusters and fly-by-night mom and pop cargo companies. Airline safety records speak for themselves. It's not like there's a bunch of accidents that are killing airline pilots but not passengers.

 

[katanabob]

Zaska nailed it. It's the bush pilots, crop dusters and fly-by-night mom and pop cargo companies. Airline safety records speak for themselves. It's not like there's a bunch of accidents that are killing airline pilots but not passengers.

Anyone claiming that bush pilots aren't professionals obviously hasn't ever spent any time in the bush.

 

[Dumb Pilot]

It's the bush pilots, crop dusters and fly-by-night mom and pop cargo companies. Airline safety records speak for themselves.

I guess those dying are not professional pilots then hum? Where do you separate the people dying from the professionals such like yourself? 20,50,70 seats? 12,500 pounds and up? I guess all the helicopter pilots that die don't count as professional pilots either Hum? or the pilots that got killed in Russia and Brazil recently, those weren't professional airline pilots like you two gifts to aviation
What is it that changes the perception of the profession when you start flying part 121? Why is it that we are so quick to detach ourselves from other pilots? even folks that just got hired at a major are so quick to look down or dismiss the regionals but they where regional pilots just a few months ago. The media seems to think that a pilot dying in a crop dusting field or covering a high speed chase like the two helicopters that crashed recently are professional pilots, so do I.

This is a MANLY job,

Too bad so many discriminatory egotistical children are doing it

 

[say again]

I guess those dying are not professional pilots then hum? Where do you separate the people dying from the professionals such like yourself? 20,50,70 seats? 12,500 pounds and up? I guess all the helicopter pilots that die don't count as professional pilots either Hum? or the pilots that got killed in Russia and Brazil recently, those weren't professional airline pilots like you two gifts to aviation
What is it that changes the perception of the profession when you start flying part 121? Why is it that we are so quick to detach ourselves from other pilots? even folks that just got hired at a major are so quick to look down or dismiss the regionals but they where regional pilots just a few months ago. The media seems to think that a pilot dying in a crop dusting field or covering a high speed chase like the two helicopters that crashed recently are professional pilots, so do I.

Well you certainly are a sensitive one!! I dont think that he was knocking their professionalism. I believe he was thinking, statistically wise, airline travel is safer!!

 

[AiRegency]

Well the idiots are out in force. I WAS a bushpilot you dumbf***. I and my fellow aviators were nothing if not professional. But it's a dangereous and demanding environment and the average airline pilot will know nothing of real risk unless they've been to war, flown in the arctic or under high tension power lines. It's more dangerous to drive to work then it is to ride on an airliner. Do not kid yourself for one second by thinking that you're in a dangerous job.

 

[John Pennekamp]

I find it hard to believe that law enforcement and construction is less dangerous than flying.

The biggest threat most cops here in the south face is dying from food poisoning after sitting at the Waffle House all day. Or choking to death on a Krispy Kreme. They don't do much else except issue revenue boosting speeding tickets.

 

[Dumb Pilot]

Do not kid yourself for one second by thinking that you're in a dangerous job.

Oh you are so wise you spike hared one! Now go play with your IPod

 

[wilky10]

All flying has risks just some are more risky. Crops dusters have a lot going on at low level with obsticles.

 

[ratherbeflyen]

I dont have to be very far into a pairing before I guess, with about 95% accuracy, if the other guy was ever anything but a flight instrctor.