Helicopters to not fly; they beat the air into submission.
Helicopters are like having a pet snake, cute, useful sometimes, ego-building, but ready to bite you at any time. It's not that helicopters want to bite you, but like snakes, that's just what they do.
There are no such things as helicopters. There are only 20,000 spare parts flying in close formation.
In Tay Ninh, RVN, I once watched a young warrant officer helicopter pilot take 23 swats at a fly with a fly swatter, miss every time, then announce that he was ready to fly me to Nui Ba Den! Think about it.
The question is, if I’m both a rotary and a fixed wing pilot, am I bipolar?