The most recent bond film had some pretty decent helo action in it. If I remember correctly not all of them exploded.
I watched a recent episode of The Blacklist, where an AS350 was being "piloted" a shot of the panel "in flight" showed all the instruments at 0 with the usual cautions lit for a machine that's standing on the ground.
The clever FBI then hacked into the machine and "turned off the rotors" - you can't make this stuff up (I guess you can) - after which the pilot wrestled with the cyclic (with both hands) and seemed to manage an out of ground hover before falling vertically and then exploding.
What utter drivel.
No wonder so many people have phobias of flying
Why is it we never see a Robbie treated this way onscreen? It's about the only place they don't explode
