While it is true that some (but not certainly not all) pilots are arrogant cocks, and particularly some military pilots who sometimes forget that to be where they are does require a lot of luck in terms of their health and their aptitude, which are two things they can not learn. In this case, I don't think the pilot was being at all arrogant. What goes up, must come down and the helo pilot has a finite amount of fuel and must land in a suitable place. The people on the ground have an almost infinite amount of dry places where they could sit!