Gotta be honest, I totally disagree about the helipad thing. On the last night of the campaign, I flew my Huey from the Sochi-Maykop FARP to Maykop, then on to the two Krasnodar airfields, then Krymsk, then Anapa, then Novorossiysk and then finally Gelendzhik for the final blow. That was a loooooooong ass flight, with certain legs repeated several times due to various mishaps, but long, tense flights in a vulnerable aircraft is really exciting, and it forces the team to work together because the helo is so valuable; if it dies, it might be an hour before he can get back to the same place.
I don't know, I've only been flying helos for five days, so maybe I'm missing the point??