FL, despite how some of my comments are worded, I do give credit in great buckets to the mil/pro Heli pilots, what I find unable to accept, is the mere fact that a high percentage of the Police Pilots who answer these threads seem to have gone native in their attitude to any form of comments that do not agree 100% with their views, or actions,( this is typical of the Police who we all see on the ground, in cars and on motorcycles) the majority of these pilots, do appear to have a very blinkered view when it comes to explaining what their action's would be if the transmission, rotors or controls left them with one way out, would any sort incident be worth one life, Because some one, somewhere has compiled the figures to show that an incident would only happen in 100,000 hours of flying does that make it acceptable! In my mind no, it cannot ever be an acceptable trade off, for after all the helicopter is only a tool to be used, these Police Pilots have gone to great lengths to tell us that they have thermal imaging cameras with power zooms, we all know a camera can bring something from a mile away to be viewed as though in the next room, so with all this ultra high tech equipment and micro links to ground staff, why the need to hover at very low height, with all the added risks attached to that sort of flying? It isnt just the public who are at risk, the crew themselves are also at high risk, at low hover heights.