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Originally Posted by wazu
Again, in English, please.
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I believe there are visual flight rules and instrument flight rules. You need to behave differently, fly more seriously, pay better attention, follow more rules, et cetera. If you're driving your car on a bright sunny day you can relax a lot more than if you're driving in the windy foggy rain. Likewise, if you're not the best driver, you're gonna have a problem if you speed down the highway with no lights and wipers. Not saying this pilot was that bad, but shitty weather certainly eliminates your margin of error if you're not very good at your job.
Everyone's pretty on point on the plane vs. copter debate. Sure, you can autorotate a copter, but it's certainly not as easy or aerodynamic as an airplane. Assuming you're not too close to the ground and there's a flat area, a gliding powerless airplane is a lot easier to land as long as you have enough lift and airspeed. A powerless airplane heads horizontally for a while. A powerless helicopter heads vertically.
It takes a certain set of balls to fly a copter, or even ride in one. I remember years ago flying in a general aviation single engine Cessna with a pilot friend. We flew out of a tiny regional airstrip. In the bathroom they had a Xerox cartoon of a plane that said, "This is your brain." Under that was a helicopter and it said, "This is your brain on drugs."