Dude, Is This Flight Necessary?

Maybe just hike your ass up there...

When you get on a crew, all the different duties and roles are divvied out. I was asked by my Overhead early on if I would be the helicopter guy. They set me up to become Helicopter Crew Member qualified (HECM) so we could keep all our flight Ops internal, keep flight manifesting internal, and so we could always say:

“We got a guy for that.”

I was also t…