Although winds at Stanley were frequently of 'stonking' magnitude, I don't recall ever risking a hookless landing - one had to consider the possibility of a brake chute failure and that metal runway could be really slippery. As I recall, we always had 5 cables rigged, 2 approach, one mid and 2 overrun such was the concern over stopping but the airborne streaming of the chute was very much frowned upon as it was both unnecessary and risky - time it wrong and you could have a very heavy landing indeed, even for an F4.