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Originally Posted by BMiller2559
I can't believe no one has brought up military or civilian drone pilot. That seems like it would be very close to the same and have the added thrill of a third dimension.
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Someone brought up UAVs very early in the thread. Generally your flight-stable aircraft, whether heavies or RPVs or whatever, are going to avoid the button-smasher mentality. Obviously if you're landing on a combat airstrip or the Hudson river or practicing dogfighting or acrobatics that's not true, but that'd be a long ways off and not the majority of your time.
If I had to pick one job in this vein, it'd definitely be rescue helicopter pilot, like in military medevacs or civilian paramedics. Certainly helicopters over anything fixed-wing / flight stable--the non-flight stable thing means you're moving more to control it, and medevacs would have you flying all kinds of crazy routes under incredible stress and fulfillment.