Heliport: Sometimes one can genuinely not see the wood etc.................
Perhaps you haven't been in situations like this often enough to realise nearly ALL commercial pilots push the limits for absolutely no reason at all other than they have seen it, done it, been there so many times, so one more 'time' shouldn't make a difference. He was not (repeat) under any time, financial pressure to get to his destination. He had been told by the customer to forget it. He wasn't lost, in fact he was fiddling with his damn phone minutes before so he was obviously "comfortable" with his SA.
And that was the problem...he was: COMPLACENT.
Intermittent VMC, cloud hpping/dodging ....call it what you like.
He carried on as if it was a minor blip on his radar.
Sometimes HELIPORT you have to debrief your fellow pilots and tell it as it is.
This is as straight forward a case of unprofessional flying as one could get. Don't look for anything else here, other than CRM....because it was sorely missing.
Please don't wrap this in various layers of aviation gobbledy gook to get others to think "society is to blame". They aren't, the environment wasn't, ATC weren't. HE WAS. K.I.S.S.
