Hover Height
When we do a blade track and balance in the hover, we hover at about 50 feet. The idea behind this is to get out of ground effect (?). My question is wouldn't it be safer to hover high enough to recover from an engine failure? What do others do?
On this vein, when hoisting into trees we tend to hover at treetop level. With only 255' of cable, sometimes that is our only option. Would anyone consider it safer to hover higher than this or is treetop level the best?
Matthew.