malaysiakini and the EUROCOPTER Test Flight

According to this malaysiakini article Wrong Eurocopter price now 'academic' the PM has apologised for the mistake in "rounding up" the Eurocopter deal and that admission is welcomed.
However the "academic" nature of the deal is not palatable as it is important for a responsible government to follow the proper procedures when committing the nation to such expensive purchases, especially when the security of the nation is at stake.
Hitching a joy-ride on a Eurocopter hardly qualifies as testing out the machine and I don't believe that even so-called experts can say much in 5 days about how the helicopter performs.
I watched a program on the Apaches and how the SAF spend months training their pilots in the USA.

Thanks to You Tube. Just like NURIs, EUROCOPTERS too cannot defy gravity