Whirly - depending on which side the wind is coming from and which way your rotor turns it could have a serious impact on directional control, especially as Nr decreases during the cushion and the TR loses effectiveness.
The Gazelle (clockwise rotation when viewed from above) would run out of left pedal during the run on with any significant crosswind from the right. Because you are slowing the rotor down during the application of collective, the torque reaction works in the opposite way to normal and tries to yaw the fuselage right (in the case of the Gazelle) - this effect is exacerbated by the weathercock effect of the crosswind which is also trying to yaw the fuselage right into wind.
In my experience, the zoom climb from low level, 180 EoLs in the Gazelle were only ever achieveable as a pre-briefed exercise and in the real case would be very unlikely to work given a normal delay for recognition of the failure and the subsequent reaction.