Thanks a lot for your replies.
It often seems simple but many items come into play to make decision.
Knowing in detail the complete surrounding of the area you enter is not possible, you can have an idea of what surrounds you but once in the hover the distances remaining behind you become unclear.
I'm flying heavy downwash aircraft and try to determine best option for the future of our land operations.
Personally once overhead the working area I'm not keen on moving left and right and even less backwards...