To complment what Gator said from the perspective of a brand new nugget in the LAMPS rag...
Some things I noticed and felt while going through flight school. I was one of those wierd guys who wanted helos all the way through flight school, so here we go.
In the HT's when students first get there, there are a lot of guys who did not chose helos, so they want the closest thing they can get to be a jet (IE tactical, CSAR, weaps...) so they all dump on the HC community... "I don't want to haul trash, don't want to VERTREP all the time." By the end of advanced, there were so many people trying to get HC. QOL is huge, brand new airframe and the community is so laid back.
I personally flip flopped a lot between HSL and HC going through the HT's. I finally chose HSL for the following reasons. While the B is getting old, it has some awsome capabilities and there will be the chance to fly a brand new R. I really wanted nothing to do with being on the carrier (main reason for not wanting jets), the small boy thing, just seemed reall cool to me... Going out on det with a few other pilots and your crews... and the locations in my opinion were a lot better.
If it were me to do all over again in both primary and advanced, I still would have picked helos and then later HSL. If you got any questions feel free to PM me, dev know a lot more about the helo than I, I probably have a fresher memory on advanced selection and early training.
Hoped this helped.
PS
Don't believe anything Squeeze is bound to post on this topic... he is THAT JET GUY!
