I listen to what people say about winching with it and those that have say it is horrendous underneath the aircraft in the downwash. Try doing a cliffsticker with that..or a surfer or any small vessel for that matter. Great for going fast and doing big boat rescues but for most of the jobs I get to do - pretty useless.
Crab, before your time, but comments like that were made by the Wessex fraternity when the Sea King was introduced to SAR. We still got the Sea King. At the end of the day you adjust your procedures to suit the machine and task.