Geoffersincornwall,
You rose to the bait!
Please note that training is great, and necessary, but mostly because we make flying so hard! Training is NOT the key to ultimate safety, we must fix the rest of the transport system that we operate in. Without Instrument procedures, and without modern helicopters, we are doomed to keep flogging the pilot and not really improve our lot.
The message is best told in the talk I gave at Heli Expo last month:
http://webpages.charter.net/nlappos/HeliExpoTalk.pdf
Jack,
ALL helicopters have fuel systems designed to FAR/JAR. The problem is that MOST of them have been designed to OLD FAR/JAR, and so they are not crashworthy, at all.