Almost died in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday..
Thanks for the wonderful experience!
Cold front blows through, pilot picks up passengers at platform, pilot takes off. 10 minutes into flight he is getting lower and lower and visibility is horrible. Pilot flies 150MPH into fog bank, pilot scares all passengers on board and banks helicopter about 30 feet off of the Gulf at high rate of speed. Death was certain but the retard turned back into the sun and regained his bearings somehow. But what do I know? I'm just a passenger.
I hope most of you considering working in the GOM reconsider ... you will be asked to do the impossible and take extreme risk in a single engine aircraft over open ocean with a full load of cargo and passengers. Pressure to perform to please the oil company, humans are the cheapest thing in the oil industry.