I find that as I get older I prefer flying higher. Down low, if anything goes wrong, you have to be very quick to get it all under control. At altitude, you have more time to think about it, & more chance for someone to hear you when you scream. Very few mechanical failures are better down low - about all I can think of are transmission failures, & the odds of that are miniscule compared to all the other stuff that can break. Lose a blade, & altitude doesn't matter. I know the PHi crew that lost the t/r on a Bell 412. They were at 5500', & if they'd been at 4500', probably wouldn't have survived it, certainly wouldn't have made it at 500'. Low level is a young man's game, & I ain't young any more.
