If there one more thing the Robby book tells us. its that some fixed-wing techniques will get you killed in their helicopters.
This idea of taking off at night staring at the artificial horizon until you get to 500' in the hopes that you'll be able to see the ground once you get there, sounds like one of them.
As for Robbys with autopilot? Yeah, that just seems like a recipe for more scudd-running and/or too dark to fly VFR, crashes.
,...in the wrong hands I guess?
