Helonorth:
I fail to see how it makes a difference: who you fly (bubbas?) and where you land (crappy old drilling rigs?). So you're in the big leagues when you fly whom to where? Utterly ridiculous.
I flew the S-76 and 412 at night in the GOM, sometimes to the edge of the chart and beyond. The fact that I landed on a "crappy old drilling rig" didn't make the trip any less interesting.....and it most certainly was
not the same as flying the loop in a 206!
I'm sure that when you are stuck flying the loop in a 206 in the GOM when you would rather be elsewhere, everything that you see out there must seem the same. But it's not- it's just your limited perspective.
And the Union thing- The strike was over almost a year ago!
So it is impossible to be a "scab"