HC,
When did Brian trump all that fancy training and flight checks, and education on the 92 professional pilots get?
I know Brian is a dinosaur from the dark ages and has shackle marks on his ankles and all....but laying that kind of guilt on him seems to be stacking up the charges just a wee bit dont you think?
Tell me anyone that has not looked down at the North Sea when it is living up to its reputation for being a very, very, very bad place to park a helicopter....and not thought about that last line in the Checklist that says..."Ditch Immediately"?
I will bet almost everyone of us at one point in time thought...."Not as long as this old girl is still flying!" We may have made a mental sub note saying something like..."get low and slow and let the whole World know...get SAR coming....and get prepared to ditch if anything whatsoever happens to show this is for real!"