Good God Almighty.
For that to illicit any form of reception gives me courage enough to express opinion. If I am wrong in any way, shape, or form, please inform me as I am not a pilot of many hours.
"Leave the controls."
Not unless they were on fire or were otherwise going to endanger the safety of my aircraft/crew, or passengers.(In that order, by the way.)
Time should never be the pilots' concern. We all hope that we find operators that understand this.
They do exist.
I know.
There will be arguments about FOMs etc, but how could anybody feel happy about leaving a rotary aircraft unattended at idle. FULL STOP.
Dont care if you are bush or not.
A/C does'nt like it, engineers dont like it, whats the problem??