Good post Crab but I beg to differ on your last paragraph.
I should have specified it was military helicopter training.
Whenever someone asks me about flying helicopters I always tell them it is no harder than driving a JCB digger.
it's not the physical handling of the machinery that is difficult, it is deciding what you will and will not do with it that causes the problems.
Still not sure if that makes me a pilot as it is a learning curve.
it certainly makes you a pilot, just not a professional one.
