EUROCOPTER PILOT HAS NMAC WITH BELL 205 AT 1300 FEET APPROACHING VNY FROM THE EAST.

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I WAS THE PIC OF HELI X PERFORMING A LCL ELECTRONIC NEWS GATHERING FLT AND WAS RETURNING TO VNY ARPT. I WAS GIVEN A FREQ CHANGE TO VNY TWR BY BUR TWR AND MADE MY INITIAL CALL INBOUND APCHING VAN NUYS CITY HALL. UPON MY INITIAL CONTACT; I ADVISED THE TWR THAT I HAD FIXED WING TFC AT MY 11 O'CLOCK POS AND REQUESTED A STAGG ARR TO THE NW CORNER. THE TWR GAVE ME A TA OF OUTBOUND TFC AT VAN NUYS CITY HALL AND REQUESTED THAT I CALL APCHING THE STAGG/405 INTXN. I ADVISED THE TWR THAT I HAD THE OUTBOUND HELI AND ACKNOWLEDGED THAT I WOULD RPT AT THE STAGG/405. UPON APCHING THE STAGG/405; I ADVISED THE TWR AND WAS GIVEN A CLRNC TO CROSS MID-FIELD AND LAND AT THE NW CORNER. AS I CROSSED OVER THE 405 FREEWAY ON THE STAGG ARR; I IMMEDIATELY SAW OUT OF MY PERIPHERAL VISION THROUGH MY CHIN BUBBLE A HELI PASS DIRECTLY UNDER THE NOSE OF MY ACFT FROM MY 1 O'CLOCK POS TO MY 11 O'CLOCK POS. I THEN SAW THE OTHER HELI; NOW TO MY L; TURN R; PARALLELING MY HDG. UPON SEEING THIS; I IMMEDIATELY INITIATED A CLB AND VEERED TO MY R. I CONTINUED TO CLB; OFFSETTING TO THE R AS I SAW THE OTHER HELI CONTINUE A R TURN TOWARDS ME. I CROSSED MID-FIELD AND WAS GIVEN ANOTHER TA FOR A DEPARTING HELI NBOUND ON THE W SIDE OF THE ARPT. I ACKNOWLEDGED I HAD THAT TFC IN SIGHT AND LANDED.