ATPMBA,
Good idea, blame the pilots - until its your turn to buy the farm. It is about time that we stop finding out how 5,000 hour pilots with 10 years experience "screw up" and instead admit that the job we do is very tough, and even the slightest mistake can be fatal. We must stop trying to slap more training band-aids onto this dead horse and instead accept and encourage the improvements that actually work, even at the paltry sums you find abhorant. If we do not, we are destined to be a small-potatoes piece of the industry beacise nobody can trust us to bring them home often enough. BTW, you are paying for the improvements right now, but the payment goes to lawyers and insurance companies instead of your cockpit.
I love the typical pprune attitude - add a few more engines, make the seats more comfortable and THEN we will have a real helicopter. Oh, yea, and when an accident happens, blame the pilot and train harder.
If we simply study what actually happens to our machines and fix these problems with existing technology, we will improve our statistics (which are about 5 times worse than airplanes) and make us legitimate members of the flying community. Until then (with attitudes like yours, ATPMBA) we will stay a side-show, and not a main attraction.