This whole "texting while flying" portion of the report is in my opinion not relevant to the accident. The aircraft had an engine failure due to fuel exhaustion, but the fatalities occurred due to the pilot's inability to perform a power off landing. That inability was not due to texting, it was due to the fact that this kid hadn't done a touchdown autorotation since he was in Primary Training IERW, and that training was in a high inertia rotor system (Bell 206B3). He flew D model 64's in the military, so all of his "auto's" were placing the collective full down with the power levers in "fly", and it appears that his AStar training was the same. He was simply not prepared to land an AStar power off. If he had never owned a cell phone, had plenty of gas, and had an engine fail due to material failure in the same location, the outcome would have been the same (except for a likely post-crash fire).