I just started my commercial course when I went up for a passenger ride in a 206 - back seat. The engine flamed out just after lift off at about 45' due to snow ingestion (machine was left outside during a blizzard and snow got into the engine cowling in spite of the snow baffles being plugged with styrofoam). Anyway yaw, sound, panel lights and I realised it was for real. We couldn't go straight down as there were lots of people standing around the airport tarmac. So the pilot pulled a bit of collective and headed for a snow drift. Bang! We hit hard but no one was hurt - just the bathtub and one skid damaged. Quite the way to learn about helicopters but I successfully finished the course.