3D,
I've posted mine on the R22 overspeed thread, as it's relevant to that.
There probably are some "good stories out there". Unfortunately, in aviation, people aren't always keen to tell them. If you do, it can get used against you. It's happened to me, someone who worked out who I am (and not a lot of women living in North Wales fly helicopters, so I'm not really anonymous) posted, when I criticised something he said: "Whirlybird, aren't you the one who..." He deleted the post before I had decided whether to explain, ignore, or retaliate, but I didn't need that early on a Monday morning!
So don't be surprised if you get very few replies. Of course, one way of coping is to have nothing to hide. In theory that seems to me to be the way to go. In practice I'm not brave enough, yet. But I'm working on it.
Whirly