Silsoe . Good reply !!! Needless to say that wasn't quite what I meant ....but you need to be able to really comfortably afford your helicopter to be able to sleep at night because **** happens !!!! I know I keep banging on about the 109 .... admittedly its old ...but it's bloody quick , very pretty and you can buy a whole hangar queen to steal from for very little . I may come back in a year crying about some huge bill but the last 600 hours have been painless even with , now , two engines sent to the states and a replacement fuel tank !!
For the price of an old MD500E , or an old 120 you could have a 109 for the next 5-7 years all paid for inc maintainance and insurance !