please correct me if I am wrong but having sat in what I regarded as a high hover OGE at approximately 6000' in an R22 HP, is this supposed to be impossible. Granted it was in the UK and OAT was 6 degrees C when we took off.
We were practising pirouettes too with zero speed at 5000' but letting the wind turn us!!
If you're gonna go, might as well go having fun!!