Ask some of the oldtime Bristow guys about hours....in one crew room with six of us one time we came up with a total of about 75,000 hours....high timers were at the 17-18,000 hour level. The amazing thing was there was but a single accident among us and that was a mechanical failure that was clearly not pilot error. Some of those guys are over 20,000 hours now and are finally beginning to retire with accident/incident free records.