From my incident can you tell me how I failed to aviate properly?
Megan - you didn't. My comment was about Gordy's incident which was clearly a loss of SA.
Finding unexpected wires is part of life as a helicopter pilot, especially when other pressures such as life-saving are brought into the equation.
We had to be able to land pretty much anywhere, day or night, and only constant awareness and a thorough recce prevented mishaps - I have lost count of times we had a late spot of wires on final approach.