Originally Posted by
HeliComparator
JP's point is a serious one - if you are only able to hover due to the wind, what are you going to do when either the wind is less than expected, or it drops whilst you are hovering (maybe with nowhere to land)?
Mountain flying in our Wessex (dating myself there) and trying to make a landing on a narrow ridge, the updraft was strong enough that we found ourselves in autorotation in the hover and couldn't get down. It was funny for a few seconds until we both looked at each other with same thought: "what happens when the wind drops?".
We moved.