Chinook winch
After watching that cruise ship being evacuated - I wondered why there weren't helicopters with larger carrying capacity dispatched so they could winch up more people during each rotation (no doubt due to types nearest the ship being available).
Thoughts turned to whether a Chinook could be used in a scenario like this - 16 or so pax for the Puma versus 35-50 for the Wokka.
I see Norway used to operate the type, but doesn't any longer.
I'd assumed they (Chinooks) all had winches over the right hand side door behind the flight deck.
But no!
A bleeding great cargo hook or two - but no winch?
A bit of further reading and it seems there is quite a bit of controversy about disc loading, down-wash speed etc.
Troops killed by mines allegedly set off by downwash - arguments over the HH-47.
Wiki doesn't seem to have the answer - can knowledgeable rotorheads shed any insight into operators worldwide whose Chinooks do have winches?
I would have thought the disc loading on the CH-47 would be much lower than a single rotor machine, unless it was loaded to the max...