While my own aircraft was in for it's annual, I rented a rather knackered replacement and took a rather plump relative for a quick jolly around my local area. Hot day. Lots of fuel on board. My usual landing site is a rather confined area over a fence and up a slope. My usual technique is to establish a hover at the bottom of the slope, check the Ts & Ps and power in reserve and hop up the slope and land. On this occasion there was not quite enough power and as I hopped up the slope with the throttle wide open the RPM gradually, slowly drooped. The descent was stopped as the skids came to rest on top of the fence which took enough weight to allow the RPM to recover for attempt 2, which was successful.
'You make that look so easy' said the passenger.
