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Travelling as a private courier is also a very interesting and inexpensive ways to get to know the world, even though sometimes that may imply falling into some kind or another of unexpected adventure. Pilots who deliver newly acquired aircraft sometimes confront situations exactly like that: aircraft manufacturers have their production plants in very few places but receive orders from around the globe; sometimes, the finished aircraft are sent partly disassembled, by ship, but it is quite common that they are delivered flying directly to their destination.

New owners do not want to make these flights always, so they hire pilots to do the job. If someone in Guyana buys a Cessna made in Kansas, U.S.A., then someone will fly the airplane across many different countries, a feat that starts with a whole pile of papers and lots of bureaucracy because governments want to obtain as much in tax money from these flights as possible. Not much has changed in this department since feudal lords began putting their now-so-romantic castles near the Rhine, in Europe: there and then, any merchant trying to deliver merchandise from one part of the continent to another using that river, had to pay about 92 times a 'toll' in order to be gratiously permitted to be there; that is why there are so many castles around the area.

Those rulers were totally incompetent to give their subjects a reasonable living standard, but they were indeed very effective at collecting money I norder to make yet more castles for themselves; much like today, isn't it?

Well, dealing with all sorts of 'official' parasites is just the beginning: you still have to fly the airplane, and in the event of a mechanical problem, weather dangers or any other cause that may indicate a precautionary landing, the pilot may found himself utterly alone in a very faraway spot, perhaps facing newly-minted, unnoficial parasites like drug dealers, african cannibal warlords and other indigenous species of the underworld.

Indeed, there have been cases in which these pilots, after landing because of some danger in the air, elect to take off and return to the dangerous situation that brought them down in the first place in a haste while an all-terrain vehicle with a machine gun on top pursues them while its crew, lost in alcoholic vapours, takes bad aim at the plane.

But don't worry: if you are not a pilot, being a courier doesn't have to be like that because you will go on a commercial plane, and you will get to know the world, anyway.

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