After a life time of doing almost everything with helicopters that helicopters do, it is indeed a singular experience to suddenly find yourself able to take off into a 500' ceiling, punch the button at 300' and then stay on autopilot until you're level at 50' over the runway centerline once again. It is such a totally different type of cockpit management and believe me, you won't get bored.
After all these years of flying them, what has become clear to me more than anything else though is this:
The most thrilling thing I have ever done in a helicopter is strap in for the first flight of the day knowing that I will once again get to experience the feeling of being master of the most amazing flying machine ever invented .... and not yey knowing what the flight is going to be like. It's those first two or three minutes that continue to give me the greatest thrill of all.
Cheers
Last edited by Heliport; 11th Feb 2006 at 18:49.