...and all our insurance premiums stay sky high because of a perfectly preventable incident.
All I can say is thank god nobody was hurt.
I'll bet the instructor concerned is wishing he hadn't had that last cup of instant coffee/last cigarette/texted his girlfriend etc... rather than being in the aircraft with the 7h student. (How much of his logged time was on helos I wonder, 7h? perhaps).
Correct me if I am wrong but a private owner/student pilot started his R44 unsupervised less than a year ago with the same result, perhaps the cause of the amendment to the ANO?
Big dangerous machines in the wrong hands.
What a waste.
SB