I know most Australian airlines accept M/E IFR helicopter hours, they see it as the experience of operating in a Multi-Crew environment with CRM, not to mention that IFR procedures are fairly standard for both.
Qantas give 2nd officers $160K P.a and all they need is min 500 hours PIC fixed-wing, captains for cathay are on close to $400K p.a.
someone said it before "If you've done all there is to do with Helicopters..."
then go check out the fixed-wing world, learn a few things you didn't know, experience something you haven't experienced and get paid well to do it... all else fails and you dislike drinking coffee at FL40 or flying an ILS approach down to 50FT before breaking visual then you have the hours under your belt to come back to heli and walk straight into a job.... go for it. what have you got to loose?
