IJMC - Better Pack a Parachute

You're required to have a life vest for every passenger on a boat, so why 
not a parachute for every passenger on an airplane? They both can help 
save lives, so why no parachutes? I'd rather have a broken leg than be 
pulp...at least most of the time.                                   -dave






In Point Man, Steve Farrar tells about a photographer for a national
magazine who 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." 

After a long pause, the "pilot" replied: "You mean, you're not my
instructor?"