Georgina HJ and I were in the aircraft Monday and as I guess the Bell pilot will confirm...
Wheels in the fullness of time, seems there are a number of 'future' scenarios where wheels will be unavoidable.
PATS Tail rotor unlikely in the short term as the current one has extremely good 'bite' and [my reading on this] why get something that might not have such grip on the environment [in the short or long term].... There are no systems out there that serve demonstrate that a PATS type anti-torque system is an outright customer winner.
I have no comment on the other question, that will need an American input.