Heli Mustering
There's a Discovery Channel programme about cattle mustering in Australia. It was on at 2300 on Christmas Eve and was one of the best things about Christmas.
It mentioned an annual flying total of 1500 hours (my copy of CAP371 wilted in my hands). The people being interviewed were continually waving flies away. From the few hours I have in R22s I remember that if I could see the cyclic move I was overdoing it, but in the footage the program had it was leaving weals on both the pilot's thighs simultaneously. It showed them eating breakfast in the dark, and it was fried calfs' brains. One bloke had been a ground-based cowboy for six years before his Dad, the station owner, would pay for his training. Listening between the lines, it was a (beep) hard job.
But flying is flying...