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World’s Most Dangerous Job? Power Line Tree Trimming Helicopter Pilot

by John P.

Power Line Tree Trimming Helicopter PilotLet’s see, if we wanted to start combining things to come up with the most dangerous job we could find where would we begin?

  • Let’s start out by putting our employee in a tiny little open cockpit helicopter.
  • Then, let’s make him fly 100% of the time within 10 yards of massive powerlines.
  • And… what the heck! Let’s dangle a gigantic chainsaw from the tiny little helicopter and make our pilot hover just above and trim massive trees!

Now, what’s hard to believe is that someone actually does this for a living! And here is the video to prove it.
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Top Free Flight Simulators

February 8, 2007
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I’m no pilot, but for Christmas I did get two new awesome remote control toys: A Blade CX2 electric helicopter and an AeroBird Swift electric airplane. These are not the cheap kind you get at Toys R Us, but the high end ones that come only from hobby stores. Having never owned any high-end R/C [...]