No apologies necessary. I didn't take your remark as flippant. I took it as realistic.

Having flown in helos both for work, and for SAR, I have a love-hate thing with them. On the one hand, a helicopter is like a magic carpet. You decide "I want to go there" and it takes you there, to a place it would take many hard hours (if not days) to reach on foot. On the other hand, they scare the crap out of me.

I am reminded of a quote:
Quote:
"The thing is, helicopters are different from airplanes. An airplane by its nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying, immediately and disastrously. There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter."

-Harry Reasoner, 16 February 1971
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