Prevention is of course better than cure.
The most vulnerable time is the first 400 hours where the pilot is no longer supervised and building up experience, some by trial and error and also learning by some of the mistakes made.
I suspect a lot of PPL's due to cost and attitude are not able to do much formal training after the PPL is completed and hopfully learn from their mistakes.
PS I promise I will not mention the C word in this thread.
Last edited by 007helicopter; 29th Jul 2012 at 19:29.