thanks for all your posts
I am being accused of being "un safe" for bringing the speed back to 40kts indicated during an air test.(no passengers on board very low weight)
we were out of the dead mans curve and above minimum safety speed for single engine flight . we had a 30kt head wind so the ground speed was 10kts.... the word hover has been thrown to the investigation and has had the effect to implicate that somehow the
manoeuvre was un safe. within the context of a factual investigation this use of the word is nothing more than inflammatory and a low punch. I was attempting to try and show that OK whilst we were slow " effectively nearly in a hover". we did also have forward airspeed on so precisely what was unsafe about it mr investigator.
Thanks for the above definitions: " a hover is when the aircraft is Geostationary" at a constant altitude"
as we had 10kts of ground speed we weren't actually in a hover. so whichever way you look at it the word should not be in the report.