[pilotdeveloper]

I'm in the process of switching careers _again_. I come from a different background and I moved to Software development ~10 years ago. I'm a skydiving instructor and also a commercial pilot and trying to find out which kind of pilot I want to be (avoiding the airlines, looking for bush flying, firefighting, etc). Life is too much fun to have only one career

[defrost]

Fugro's geophysical suurvey division runs million+ line kilometre surveys across the planet - from planes, ships, and ground vehicles.

There's work there for pilot-operators unflustered by aquisition software and instrumentation.

A lot of that work is flying dead straight lines @ 70 m/sec for 20-50km at 80m ground clearance with minimal deviation and a gut twisting turn at the end to drop into a parallel line on the return leg .. for max flying hours per day.

[dotdashdashdash]

I don't know if they have a similar thing where you are, but we have the Royal Flying Doctor service in Australia. Essentially, it's someone who flies a doctor into remote locations when they're hours away from a hospital, or an ambulance won't be able to make it.