The aircraft didn’t need another device of any type to have easily avoided the accident. It was all on the pilot. He had tons of experience both as a pilot in the type copter and lots of experience flying the L.A. basin area. He was totally familiar with the weather. He was given visual routing by the controllers, routing given helicopters on a regular basis. He was obviously very familiar with what they issue , accepting it without question, probably having flown those visual routings many times. He just used poor, poor judgement. More regulations would not have changed that for a moment. He was scud running. Frank Talman, who’s credentials also fit those of the copter pilot, in fact probably even more experienced, did exactly the same thing in his Aztec when he was scud running and flew into the mountains east of L.A. As pilots we are expected to use good judgement. That can’t be legislated.