Whatever happened to full and free control checks prior to starting engines???
There is a not so famous story from North Queensland, of a hill billy mustering driver, no - novice I must say - who was asked the same question by an insurance auditer a year or two back.
The reply was;
"errr yeah, mate eh. but that was before I put me swag in eh!"
It appears that the helicopter was seen to do several very tight circuits of the pad until one skid hooked a fence wire.
The owner was not amused, the pilot rang around not long after wanting to get onto an AOC for his own helicopter. haa haa.