To ruddy noisy. British Caledonian Helicopters took delivery of their Bell 214STs with skids. In less than a year they had been replaced with a wheeled undercarriage.
Bristow had one blown over being towed crosswind at Newcastle and the one that fell over on the deck North West of Shetland was blown over because the ship altered its heading unexpectedly.
As one poster mentioned before. The fuselage had not only to fit into a Transall and but also a railway truck. That's where the Turmo came from, it was used in high speed express trains.