Original Message

after this milestone? I like flying, but not like before.

Thanks. 

I loved flying right up until I retired.... and I guess I love it and miss it now, too.

It took the better part of 40+ years to get there and by then I had seen enough of my friends make fatal errors to know that I could, too. Scared myself on occasion, as well. I decided to quit while that was true.

Flying helicopters is different than flying airplanes, it isn't going into airports and other preconfigured landings. You find the destination, try to find an adequately sized, level place to put your skids that is accessible for pax and cargo loading/off-loading. There may be no weather observation within a hundred miles, much less a terminal forecast: what you see is what you got; and what you infer from that is, hopefully, accurate and sufficient.