Choice is yours dude.....Welcome to the world of being a professional pilot...
You misunderstand me, but no worries. I've been flying commercially for a quite a while now in challenging environments.
The copy of the company manual I have seen (for the company involved in the accident) says you can't exit a running helicopter unless its for a pilot swap or done with a control hold, which is undefined, hence my first question.
Knowing the pilot involved personally and knowing both his method of flying and how he operated I can't see him ever doing something that violated the ops specs, unless the company told him to do one thing in the ops spec but then trained him to do another out on the line.
So I'm trying to understand the why.