It never gets old how people are defending their piece of the grass......
You guys out there in the Jet Rangers have NO Idea how the Offshore business works...
Its not about "how good you land at unprepared landing sites", but about how well you know the (VERY restrictive) procedures that OGP demands.....
You can fly 50 ft above ground and smash the helicopter into a tight landing zone?
Brilliant-but it does not have one single piece of what it takes to fly 100% in line with the books-all the times.....
Have you ever heard of "Stabilized approach criteria", or "sterile cockpit procedures"-or do you have to google it?
I have done both sides-and i prefer any utility job over offshore flying; but offshore flying is where the "big bucks" are....
Offshore is (can be) also a retirement job.........unless you want to get back into a hot and sweaty cockpit, working your balls off......