A question for you Legal Scholars posing as Helicopter Pilots.....the British way of doing a Confined Area Takeoff (I learned it as a Towering Takeoff) differed from the American way of doing the same thing (each used the same power) is far different from the various CAT A, Perf Class One (or whatever you are calling things this week).
Instead of this backwards and up to 400 feet (or so) as we saw used.....what if an old fashioned Towering Take Off had been used from as far downwind as possible and the aircraft accelerate much lower but clear of obstacles.....could Vtoss and Vbroc been achieved much quicker?
What Rules, Regulations, etc.....prohibit such a Takeoff like that a situation as is under discussion?
Are Rules getting ahead of reality and causing greater risk instead of making flying safer?