It's not so much a chip on my shoulder, as being told everywhere I went flying either in the Navy or after the Navy, that my "helo hours don't count" and "in no way prepares you to fly a turboprop/jet"

I found doing instruments and airway flights to be much, much easier in the jet than flying a TERF route in a helo. Yes, you are going 2-10x faster. But, you are also not making a turn every ten seconds, or trying to fly a COPTER approach in a jet either.

Stick and rudder in a helo, vs any transport-type turboprop flying I have done is much harder.

And I do get sick of being told, either via uninformed opinion, or policy that it counts for less than boring a hole in the sky in a C152, which as far as most airlines are concerned is true.

I'm pretty damn sure the reason I've had a pretty good BI scan is flying at night, unaided, in an aircraft 200 feet off the water with no moon. If you aren't good on the gauges, you will die flying 200 feet all night in bad weather, while doing some fairly aggressive maneuvering at times.

I'm not saying it's a jet. It's not.

But it has to count as least as well as a C152.