the way things are looking for the future, it might be hard for the younger pilots to get up to those numbers in a career. Its not going to be a rare sight to see heli pilots retiring with between 15,000 and 25,000 hrs these days but with the industry where it is now and even if things starts picking up and I think they will, they will never fly the amount of hours we used to fly and if they do it will be a rare sight.
JD
Forgot, congratulation to the Canadian pilot and all the others that made it that far.