24 feet square ha ha ha.. I wish I had that much to land on when embarking on one of Her Majesty's grey funnel liners in something a good bit bigger than a 206. And they make it pitch roll and heave just for extra fun - and then the icing on the cake is to do it in the dark!
Crikey PF1 you make landing on a chuffing great, rock solid rig sound like the most difficult thing on earth, your 10,000 plus hours have obviously been spent earning easy money.
As for the 'bigger the mouth the smaller the brain' argument, well judging by your verbage on this thread which is notable for both it's prevalence in quantity and its paucity in quality - yours must be the smallest brain since microbes were discovered.