Ummm...... really??
FFS. It was a TV show, yes its made to look flashy, thats the whole point. Yes, they may have been able to do it safer, but maybe that wouldnt have given them the shots of the Heli they wanted? As someone else said, driving the 3 cars down the road had more exposed risk, for a longer period, than the heli. And maybe they don't have all the fancy camera gear in Romania to do it any differently. As for the rest of the flying, I don't see any problem with it at all, there was no overflying of public gatherings or buildings at low level, clear area, obviously he was aware of the wires and no doubt had done a very thorough recce of the area before hand, as all of us should.
At the end of the day, maybe the hover on the road was a risk if he had of had an engine failure just as the vehicles were approaching. But then, every day at work I fly over a whole bunch of stuff, both on dept. and app. that if my donk were to withdraw its enthusiasm for life, I would be up the !!!!ter too, Just like every fire pilot, or sling pilot, or various other jobs that we use these wonderful machines for.
Calculated and accepted risk.
Its either that, or go wrap your self in cotton wool, and don't live a life.
If the rest of the world turns out to go the way of the Nanny state, I will give up flying I think. Well.. I would have to, because we wouldnt not be able to do the sort of work that I do in that case.
