Rufus,
Your input here is always welcome and is just as important as anyone else's. Please continue to weigh in anytime you can...that is the beauty of this website.....it is a means to draw together pilots from all over the world. We may not always agree...but then whenever did two helicopter pilots agree upon anything?
We just got to remember that just because our position is not universially accepted or applauded, it does not mean we are not welcome.
Your kipper comment reminds me of ordering a fellow captain an 0430 wake up, kippers and warm milk breakfast, with a Guardian newspaper, after he had scarfed 19 pints of the foaming ale and the second ugliest woman in the bar...I had the ugliest ! He never did forgive me...seems he fancied the gal I was with I think?