Originally Posted by
Magplug
If you are in a hover high above the ground then your chances of a tidy touchdown diminish with height....The chances of a succcessful EOL from a free-air hover of between 50 and 1000 feet are negligible.... even before you consider the complication of the confined area beneath you..... that's the dead man's curve.
So, if some of the observations above are correct and the pilot chose to climb to an unusually high hover, why might he have done so?