As usual, the comments are hilarious!!

My first helo flight as offshore Louisiana. Pilot knew we were novices. He mde us all check our weight and bags. Then he started the engine, warmed it, and started rocking the bird back and forth on the pad while he shook his head and flipped switches on his overhead console. About the time we were all looking at each other and wondering if we really wanted to do this, he shot straight up off the pad and banked into the wild blue yonder over the gulf. We could see the SOB chuckling up front, and we knew we had been had.