Forest Fire Photography
A photographer for a national magazine was assigned to take pictures
of a great forest fire. He was advised that a small plane would be waiting
to fly him over the fire.
The photographer arrived at the airstrip just an hour before sundown. Sure
enough, a small Cessna airplane was waiting. He jumped in with his equipment
and shouted, "Let's go!" The tense man sitting in the pilot's seat swung
the plane into the wind and soon they were in the air, though flying erratically.
"Fly over the north side of the fire," said the photographer, "and make several
low-level passes." "Why?" asked the nervous pilot. "Because I'm going to
take pictures!" yelled the photographer. "I'm a photographer, and photographers
take pictures."
The pilot replied, "You mean you're not the flight instructor?"
Back to PSTAR Section
12 - Regulations - General Airspace
This page written 3 July 2003 by Robyn Stewart.
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