Aw C'mon! C'MON!!! You have had 6 (six) tail rotor failures?!? And several engine failures? All in 3,700 hours?!?!?
The only way I would believe that is if you were flying a Rotorway Shark built out of driftwood by a retarded monkey.
Seriously, many people will never have even a single catastrophic component failure in the course of an entire career. Those that, by their own admission, fly 'junk' helicopters may up the odds somewhat but not to the point of having a calamity every 500 hours on average.
You should be banished to Siberia for telling such grotesquely tall tales, Lieutenant. Check with Bristow though... they may have a base there.
Hmmmmmmm, deep breath Revo. Okay. I feel better now. About your question: There are two problems with your grandiose plan. One is that Air Log in Louisiana and Bristow in Aberdeen are not close sisters as you assume, but rather distant cousins with about as much in common as Barack Obama and Dick Cheney. Working for one will likely get you no closer to working for the other.
The other problem is more of a philosophical one, and here I am speaking to you in a fatherly sort of way (although I am quite sure that I never met your mother): If you spend years focusing on that one dream job to the exclusion of everything else, you are in for a letdown once you get there because that dream job of yours will turn out to be quite mundane -like every other job- within about two weeks.
My advice (if you still want it): stick with the first three bullet points and don't worry about where it will lead. Down the line something will come to you. And your wife. And your cats. Good luck, Pinocchio.
Last edited by Revolutionary; 12th September 2008 at 23:03.