Experience is a harsh teacher.....
....first the test then the lesson. I clocked up a thousand hours in a ten year fling with a little R22 Bladestrike. It was a stormy torrid involvement, the first few hundred hours were the scariest. I still remember the words I wrote at the milestone, "My thousand hours in choppers taught me patience & respect for the machine, fear & loathing of wires & weather, gratitude & appreciation for the experience. Most of all I’m relieved that I’m still here, the first few hundred hours were a steep learning curve & the definition of an optimist is a low hours chopper pilot who gives up smoking."
I can only begin to imagine what secrets you've learned in the next nine thousand?