Just to chuck in my sixpence worth....
If the guy chose to land on the readily available hard, flat ground that is so visibly plentiful in this picture, then the risk assesment chart would go bright red in a heartbeat.
WHY?, I hear you ask.
Beacause you now have a situation where a crew that is familiar with a particular task and more than likely TRAINED to do it that way suddenly has to change everything they are familiar with and work in a "foreign" environment.
Now, the suddenly available wide open spaces bring a HUGE risk to the fore where the helper for example stands a DEFINITE chance of wandering off and getting hit by that normally not clearly visible tail rotor, a situation that was not possible on the "dangerous" elevated platform they are familiar and dare I say it,
safer with.
Naturally, just my opinion and subject to the expected nit-picking it will no doubt generate.
