Maybe I'm confused about all this, but it has always been my understanding that the forces acting on an aircraft in flight (and I consider a hover to be flight, it's off the ground) act around the plane(s) of the center of gravity, not the plane of the rotor, or the skids, or any other plane. It might be possible to make the opposite skid hang low if the tail rotor were below the CG, but I still don't see what having the tail rotor above or below the main rotor has to do with it. ISTM that the tail rotor imparts thrust, countering torque, & we counter that by putting in a combination of pedal & cyclic, to keep the nose straight, & the cyclic input rolls the fuselage around the CG, & we end up with a balance of forces, more or less, changing by the microsecond, resulting in a tilt into the t/r thrust. Does this sound right, Nick, or anyone?