Regarding G-RFUN ... Wow, what a load of pomposity on this thread! You can pass a driving test that shows you are barely competent to drive, buy a sports car, and crash it due to inexperience. Happens all the time. So what.
If you have newly obtained your helicopter licence and operate in an unsupervised environment, you likewise have a pretty good chance (relatively) of crashing. So what, that is the nature of private flying. Alternatively, we could make PPLs do a couple of thousand hours training prior to being awarded their licences. But guess what, there wouldn't be too many PPLs out there!
Don't try to apply professional standards to private flyers, it just makes you look stupid and arrogant.
Edited to add that by "you" I mean a fair chunk of those participating in this thread, not just the person whose post preceded mine.