FW,
i reread my earlier posts, there absolutely was no threat in them.
Purely a statement about whether I would fly in a Scottish based Puma.
Simple answer, no threat, no innuendo.
I understand it's personal.
It is from my side too.
Google helicopter crash frequencies, at some point down the list that pops up you'll find fatalities per million hours.
GoM and N Sea are the same.
GoM does single pilot, single engine ops.
N Sea does not.
The bears in the back are simple, we like it that way.
Too many crashes, too frequently and too many people killed.
The offshore population these days is about 30,000.
That is a very small town.
Very small.
What if a small town taxi company killed 20 people in 4 years?
And the taxi drivers told us it's ok, we know what we are doing ?
It's all a bit complicated for you to understand, but get in !
. . . .
Oddly, we think the drivers are a bit deluded actually.
Perspective comes when we look across at the next small Town where no one has been killed in ages . . (Norway, Same weather)
Last edited by airwave45; 27th Aug 2013 at 06:41.