Nick,
Interesting point you made....Ground Proximity Warning system shoved onto the customer by the manufactuer....rather than by the Customer demanding it. That system would have saved at least one S76 in the Gulf of Mexico this year....and a bunch of lives. Funny how the Big Time corporate helicopters get outfitted with all the gadgets while the Offshore birds do without. I guess all the IFR flying in the Northeast corridor requires that stuff and the Gulf of Mexico doesn't.