Last time I checked...  

Last time I checked, there was no requirement that anyone had to be a "real" helicopter pilot to post on this forum.  I mean, we'd *like* that to be the case, but come on, man, this is the internet, where people assume all kinds of false identities and nobody knows who or what is real. Forums like this one are populated by all kinds of posters, poseurs, pretenders and pirates. (Well, probably pirates.  Arrrgh! Who knows, matey!)  Comes with the territory.  You want to talk to *only* real pilots? Go hang out in a pilot lounge. The conversation will be pretty shallow and dumb, but it'll seem like the Algonquin Round Table compared to this place.