Silverback, I hope you are being tongue in cheek about the farmers field too, though there is no indication of that. Poor idea in France unless you've waited months and months for your helisurface permit from the local prefecture - or have you just not operated helos there?
Really?..Yes was tongue in cheek...Ab, it is these (your) sort of pedant responses that stop folk from commenting or posting...everybody has an opinion and whilst it might not be correct or align with yours, there are ways of communicating which are less confrontational...I fly for fun, but I do take it very seriously.
I could easily add negative, exacting commentary to threads..but to what end?
...maybe you should have fun flyers excluded from the forum?
Rather than post again (Ab)...PM me so that we can meet F2F and have a chat over a beer.