From post #20...that style of Rescue in the Himalayas is an SOP :8 nudging in on Your right side with your rear door open is fine, good view & good escape options.... I'd never toe in ;)

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Gedney - I would expect that he only has a very light contact with the ground such that he is essentially in the hover rather than having landed - this would allow lateral cyclic and the most minimal addition of collective to effect a flyaway, even if he dragged the skid a bit towards the cliff edge.

Try doing the same thing with both skids in contact when the only option is a rearward movement - not impossible but much more difficult.

I agree a winch-equipped aircraft would be better but many countries don't have that facility either by choice or necessity.

SilsoeSid

I'll bite ...... "The rule only applies when the sound represented is ‘ee’. It doesn’t apply to words like science or efficient, in which the –ie- combination does follow the letter c but isn’t pronounced ‘ee’.

Neither does the rule apply to any word without the ee sound, even when there is no c involved, such as foreign, feign, beige, forfeit"

Thats weird, what species are you tistisnot?

SilsoeSid ...... Purveyor of Pedants, perhaps?

Crab and Megan - thank you for your replies.