Glad to hear that my tail rotor theory has some credence!
Now! I'm a pretty demanding operator, and so I ask my chaps to do running take offs up to the max speed of 45 kts to bring the wind vector around to within the crosswind limits.
Hard task master, but unfortunately I think that will allow you to comply with the flight manual.
By the way, if I had $12,000,000 to spend on a helicopter, I'd make bloody sure it could carry everyone I wanted with an 18 kts breeze off the port bow.
[ 26 October 2001: Message edited by: bintanglagi ]