Let’s hear from the pilots  

"If you don't know what you're looking for then you can't tell the wrench what's wrong."

It was a 500, for God's sake. It didn't take a NASA test pilot to convey to the mechanic what was wrong with the damn thing. You could point at something and say "this is broken" or "this is what the machine is or isn't doing". It's about as simple a helicopter as they come but when MX is stretched thin and you have pilots too new and inexperienced to ground aircraft, you will have lots of problems. 

The lineman in charge worked for the helicopter company, not the utility. That's how it works. I wasn't disgruntled, I just didn't like the whole situation enough to persue it antwhere else. 

I didn't usually fly broken stuff. Depends on what was broken and how bad. You really been doing this for 50 years? What IS comical is a supposedly highly experienced pilot says this is "pretty simple." 

I don't care how many friends you made or any of that other crap. EMS probably flys 100 times the number of hours power line companies fly. How many power line aircraft are out there on a given day? 50 tops? To say it is no more dangerous than anything is delusional. Bullsh*t on your accident rate.

Don't be so defensive, but power line utility flying is for idiots. I really doubt you have any experience doing this, anyway. Whenever you hear somebody talk about all the years and hours of experience they have, it means one thing: they don't have either.