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Old 17th Mar 2020, 08:14
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Originally Posted by megan
The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Helo drivers in the military were always seen as being the bottom rung of aviation, was the destiny of those at the bottom of the wings course, and many drivers were looking to get into the fixed wing side of the business. One Army Sioux driver went for a ride in a F-100 dropping bombs on bad guys, he then took the guy for a low level flight in his Sioux and he thought the experience out of the world and cool, helo driver thought the opposite, flying the jet was cool.
When it comes to helos vs. jets/planes from the military point of view, in the annual HeliOps calendar giveaway (thanks to KiwiNedNZ) 2016 thread, John Eacott hit it right on the head: See his original post
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