If I saw a helicopter rotate counterclockwise, it would still be counterclockwise from which ever angle my point of view was. (I can work that out by looking at the nose).
Aah choppy, I thought you'd find this hard to understand, let me try to make it even more simple for you;
Place a piece of blue tack on the top of your mobile phone, to represent the front/nose.
Hold your mobile phone in front of you, about chest level.
Rotate it clockwise.
Keeping the plane of rotation horizontal, continue to rotate the phone and raise the phone above your head.
Please now look up at the phone and tell us the phones apparent direction of rotation.