Well thanks Crab. But I think Robbie is gone for good.
Anyway, as promised:
If you compare the heli accident statistics of Europe with those of the USA, you will find that the same operations in Europe are 50 percent less safe
than in the USA: The average number of accidents per 200,000 flight hours is 2.45 in Europe, 1.89 in the USA and 2.96 worldwide, with the highest accident rates being recorded in Africa and Asia.
Translated by Google. From a speech of the EASA director Patrick Ky at a Swiss Helicopter Association Convention in 2018. Note the "same operation". The FAA must do something right.
Ky also said, that the trend in Europe has not been going down for the last 10 years in Europe and 15% of all accident happen during training. That is bad.
The good thing is, that there will be new EASA regulations with more flexibility for the helicopter industry (well, just not for the Brits). The whole paper is quite interesting.
And since the Swiss FOCA and REGA are part of the group for the new regulation, we can hope, that Vuichard's thing will not be part of the new regs. He is so annoyed with REGA, that he doesn't event want to be rescued by them (From a recent article, why the Swiss FOCA and REGA do not promote his thing after REGA had an accident with VRS. That close to the ground the pilot would have rolled the ship touching down sideways).