Indeed Mr May is an inexperienced ppl plank pilot, so the story was going to be extremly biased. But please don't blame the poor chap, blame the people that trained him, brained washed the poor little muppet in his training enviroment to hate us far superior rotary pilots. The standard chopper envy is apparent, as they are doomed to take off on a runway, little grass field strip and land to a little wooden hut smelling of damp, with old biscuits and stewed tea, (bacon sandwiches are acceptable though).
As for us expert's at handling our own chopper, we go and land in these rather nice hotel's just to annoy the guest's, demand the right to be served and to say "everyone take a look at my chopper" and then meet the mistress for desert.
Hark what do I hear the plank pilots say " At least we can go long distances, like to france ".
Yes that is true, yet you still have to land at an airfield and a french one at that !
While the plank pilots are being molested by french drivers on the roads trying to get their chateau, the expert chopper handlers will already be there sipping the champagne from young french serving girls.
I am a chopper pilot and proud of it, avec gross sac.
