OK, My post No 30 on this thread was not entirely serious!
In 6 years UK HEMS I've never needed a winch in over 3120 call outs.
(In 10 years RAFSAR I only had 234 callouts. Winched on most of those, correction, hovered* while winchop and winchman winched!)
*Had 70kts IAS on one of those! Is that "hovering"?