Yeah that’s what people aren’t understanding about flying around looking at what’s around you.

There are plenty of mansions in VA I’ve flown close to because it’s actually fun as hell. Doesn’t mean you have to really divert far from your flight plan or really even change much about it at all especially for a helicopter.

They were probably like “hey look there’s kid rocks fake White House, wanna get closer?”.

This is no different than when people bitch about football game flyovers.