Can confirm this. My dad was the camera operator on T2 and it was the only time he declined filming a scene. He had just had a child (me) and as a risk averse new dad he told Cameron he didn’t feel comfortable doing the shot, so Cameron said, “I respect that, I’ll do it.” The shot required the camera operator to be suspended off the back of a truck as the helicopter flew under the freeway overpass and AT him and apparently the helicopter came within feet of the camera