This really bothers me. It's bad enough that alot of the general public think helicopters just fall out of the sky and crash and burn...also alot of them are too scared to go up again after a bad flight experience -pulled a few rip-ass turns and scared them to death.
Some pilot goes out and destroys not only a machine, but all the hard work that 99% of pilots put in to flying safely and professionally.
There's been so many accidents where the wreckage has come out looking better then that of NBP, but with no survivors. I happened to be sitting in traffic looking at it on the back of a trailer last week...and it wasn't a very big trailer either. Makes me think of how some great pilots have died through no fault of their own, and then others just fly like a maniac, write off a machine and walk away.pfft. And I thought that 'licence in a Weet-Bix box' line was a joke...now I'm not so sure. I really hope CASA do something for once
Can't find that video anywhere though