Summer of 1991 in Northern Canada I land in the bush at a Logging Operation and there is a Rotorway Exec sitting in the ditch beside the road.
I ask whats the story on the helicopter and it belonged to one of the heavy equipment operators. Turns out he often flew to work instead of bouncing miles and miles down a bumpy gravel logging road.
He bought a partially built Rororway, finished it off himself and taught himself to fly it. Never had a lesson, never did any emergency training much less an auto....was scared to fly more than a few hundred feet AGL cause it seemed safer.
He had been doing this a few years at that point..