Originally Posted by Whirlybird
The pilot who doesn't necessarily want to go anywhere, and certainly not any great distance, but is happy doing a little jaunt on a sunny weekend. A f/w pilot like this quickly uses up all his/her local airfields and gets bored. The rotary equivalent can probably spend a summer or two at least landing in friends' gardens, local pubs and hotels, and similar places. And it probably won't cost much more, if any.:
Thats me Whirly.
I do exactly that in both f/w and rotary. And the list of pubs, hotels, friends back gardens, museums, etc is a lot longer than the list of airfields and farm strips combined. The nice thing about doing this in a helicopter is that I rarely need to go above 1000 feet or so agl to do it. Can I add the field next door to you to the list yet?