"Locals"!
In the good old days HELICOPTER PILOTS weren't very welcome in the BRC Bar!
I used to talk to them but then I will talk to just about anyone. As a Septic and just a bush pilot can I afford to be choosy? (I couldn't always understand the accent but so what? Of course there was the time I tried to give a guy the Heimlich Manoeuvre when it turned out that he wasn't choking, just Scottish.)
Oh well, all those gloomy predictions... Does it cheer you up somehow to see things play out the way you thought they would, SASless?
Just remember, "Living well is the best revenge."