"If someone buys a helicopter to learn to fly and keeps it at home does it mean the FI has to take him to an airfield and touch skids before the student can start logging the training time? Do they have to go through the same procedure at the end of the lesson? If that's right, does that mean the time on the way to the airfield and on the way home doesn't count for training even if you are training?"
Correct, welcome to Great Britain.