Flap.
"Having plenty of time in both mil and civvie worlds I can tell you that the chap will have made more command decisions in his 1000hrs and had more experience of flying close to the edge of the performance envelope than your seasoned helo chap"
You mention mil and civvy worlds, but not rotary. Do you have front line military rotary experience?
I think quite a lot of SK/Chinook/Apache/Puma/Lynx crews would "would have enjoyed the subsequent conversation! " with you if you if you came out with crap like that.