RotoNutz
How very true, we have quite a few of those in the UK and equally we have the inexperienced and perhaps cautious but ignorant (poor choice of words but I can't think of a better one) owners who come to grief because they don't really understand what they are doing.
I hold my hands up to being an inexperienced owner 10 years ago and getting away with some things I did in an R22 , because I knew no better, so I can see where some of these guys come to the end of their abilities.
I noticed looking through a photo gallery of a well attended annual helicopter event in the UK that for a period of years if you look back through the photos roughly one of the helicopters has been written off per year in the last few years. Hardly conclusive proof of anything but it peaked my interest, its got absolutely nothing to do with the event itself, but it attracts lots of owners in their own aircraft.
In some respects it comes back to my catchphrase from last year 'You don't know what you don't know'.
GS