Originally Posted by
TorqueOfTheDevil
Erm Nige mentioned 50m as manageable for hover-taxiing rather than transitioning to the hover, and I agree with him (much as it would be a last resort - as he also said).
For the record, I have hover-taxied in 50m vis in mountainous terrain, and in 10m vis (estimated) at night over the sea. Not that either is remarkable, but this thread seems to have an appetite for stating credentials at the moment.
But the context was being able to get to that position to find a suitable landing site. My point is, its not possible unless you are already hover taxiing and the vis clamps in, its not like there was an ILS to make the decent, and it was a squirrel, not a SAR cab
I don't dispute hovering in 50m vis, I also have, but I wasn't in a squirrel, and I am sure you weren't, and when you were, you had crew looking out every direction for things that you could bump into. And I'm guessing you had sufficient training.