In South Africa anyway, the 222 was more know because of Airwolf rather than it's reputation as being a very good helicopter. I never flew one but as I understand it the machine did not deal with Hot and High very well and as such there were few of them about.
There was one located in the hangar next to ours, yes I had a hangar at one in time, but it seemed to spend more time being attended to by techies and we did not often see it or hear the thump thump sound of it flying.