RETIREMENT???!!*#
What helicopter pilot can afford to retire? Who (apart from the Esso jocks) has been with a company long enough earning a pay cheque big enough to have super sufficient to live on?
Most chopper drivers hope their medicals hold out until 85 like John Eacott*, to delay having to use their meagre funds. The rest just fly until they die.
Bit different from planks, but they don't have as much fun while they are alive as we do.
*Sorry, John, we know you are really only 84, but the silver hair gives the illusion of grand old age.