No it's just annoying that people who are, or have only flown a steam driven AP express opinions on the safety of flight where a DAFCS is deployed.
As for the RAF claiming the moral high ground we would need to forget the 330 accidents numerous, CFITs.
In IMC or at, night, the back of the power curve in a large uncoupled helicopter is a miserable place to find your self even when you deliberately visited it. To find it unexpectedly is a shocker.
Al-Bert, how about some honesty. How many times in your career were you "just lucky enough" and got away with it at the edges of the envelope?