The Most Assuredly Moronic Thing

 You get in your helicopter, and there is a power pole staring in your face, just off to the right and just next to the rotor arc.  You strap in, do the prestart checks, and then you look both ways before starting the rotors, and as you complete your visual sweep that same line of power poles is still staring you back in the face, still alarmingly near your rotor arc.  And as you prepare to lift off you look around one more time, and that same line of power poles, not having moved an inch in the last 10 minutes, still there in alarmingly close proximity.  So what should be the absolute last thing on your mind at that point, the most assuredly moronic thing you could possibly do with a 6 ton helicopter?  Doing anything but going straight up.  What does the pilot do?  The most assuredly moronic thing.