Silsoe; how does anyone tell private helicopters from corporate? Clearly impossible, and even identfying what are public service helicopters is not easy. So reference to 'private' is probably fairly meaningless - apart from perhaps indicating a chip-on-shoulder mentality.
TC; you've got it wrong - I'm very much trying to support our industry. And that is not going to be achieved by us being blinkered to real issues. However I do concede I may have been naive - in expecting posters to be objective rather than being knee-jerk defensive to any criticism.
I stand by my comments, partly because even when one might think a point is being exaggerated (ie 60 seconds of conversation-killing overflight) being understanding rather than defensive tends to diffuse antagonism - that can easily escalate.