Toughest job out there is SPIR onshore Corporate, followed by onshore SPIR AIC. Period.
I laugh when I hear offshore pilots talk about their ‘captaincy’ decisions when you consider that almost any captaincy decision has been taken out of your control.
Every landing site is ‘licenced’, to a greater or lesser extent (HCA is a farce), you usually return to an ILS option and you have ‘current’ regulated weather reports for each HLS. HOMPs, FCOMs and SOPs dictate how and when you fly - and rightly so.
Fog is not just an NS phenomenon.
Captaincy has been reduced to deciding whether or not we tell ATC the real reason for our RTB in case it becomes headlines in tomorrow’s P&J!
I had great fun in the mil and in both corporate and aoc onshore but give me offshore any day ;-)