BIGJOCK, there is absolutley nothing to stop anyone arsing about in a helo if they are on their own, but to do it with newlyweds and a baby onboard, you think it's just a case of 'let him have a bit more training and he'll be right'?
Give me a break.
Also, if you think he recovered the situation well, you must be bloody blind. It was about 2 seconds from carnage and if thats a good recovery, then maybe I think with different limits to yourself. It was purely luck that he's not in a morgue or 6 foot under right now.
We've all probably made mistakes whilst flying which we've learned from, but I bet less than .5% on here have had anything like that happen with pax onboard.