An HEMS tip: how wide are highway lnes in your state?  

"what do you doif you have to land somewhere like the woods where nobody has gotten around to painting lines on the ground."

Good question. You estimate and keep your crew involved. The SOP at my last job was to do as many high, low recons as you wanted.

Brief the crew on the plan and fly the plan in a sterile cockpit.

If anybody says anything that is not shaped by the brief, you stop and perhaps go around until the issue is addressed. Everybody will be in the crash, so everybody watches out, speaks out.

The pilot narrates the approach: coming to the turn posiition to align with landing, starting deseent, see the pole (highway berrier, rocks right front, whatever, clear left and behind? Clear right and beihnd? 

Heve the big trees on the right {or light standards, whatever) and hug them like you ve'em; etc., all the way down to skids on the ground call and crew exit.

Usually the requesting agency knows and meets our LZ requirements. I very sledom had to reject a propsed LZ and I would always suggest an option that I could accept.

A bigger problem was the landing surface. Tited or stumps, rocks I dodn't see from the recons. Or last minute wires. On the recon I was looking for right of ways, structures near by that would have elctric and phones. Bridges always have wires spanning the right of way. Look for signs not facing you, they're not obvious from behind...

Oh, and and do a power check! There are rules of thumb: 3% TQ means 200 lbs as does 1% of NG.

Not that hard, just don't rush it.