We watched a couple of these fairly large helicopters actually taxi down the runway to help them lift off with up to 11 passengers, counting pilot and co-pilot, for their trips out to the off-shore rigs. Bill made it sound as if it's not all that complicated to use one of these joysticks. Easy for him to say...
With several flights to and from the rigs scheduled each day, it's an impressive operation, and we were very fortunate to have had the opportunity to tour it with Bill.