Dude.....I can't go wheeling in my VX without ripping the front license plate off and I have a hidden winch bumper with only the roller fairlead sticking out and even that gets scraped from time to time......how do you figure you are not gonna rip your winch bumper off? it was your thing, but the greater approach and departure angles, the better.
I toyed around with the, "internal out of the way look" but "nixed it", because I seemed to use a winch quite a bit, when Im out there woods. NOT, to get myself out of a problem but, day to day stuff. and when you close it up, you cant see how your reeling it in??? or easily anyway. IMO. And it took up so much room and was so close to the radiator when we put it there. It just seemed more pratical to go this way.
As for the "approach/departure angles?? Its curious you use these terms as they are quite familiar to me. Not in the car sense, but in the "Plane" (avaiation) sense (no pun intended ). Nevertheless, I understand the theory you are speaking of.
Judging from your, "file image" you like to "jock" your way around the woods. That's okay... but if your going to hold a vertical for any length of time, like in your file image I hope you have a "dry sump" system.????? Also I think you got the wrong car for this, in any case..IMO...Now extrapolating on this approach/departure theory you speak of. I presume, "approach", means, "going forward" regardless of going up slope or down slope and, "departure" means, "going backward" regardles of going up or down. Suffice to say, Its been on there for 2 years now and on some pretty nasty stuff and never ONCE!! an approach/departure issue.
Me,..... I'm just an ole military guy from the Viet Nam era who is thankful to have brought all the equipment entrusted to him back on to the ground, more or less in one piece, including myself....
). Nevertheless, I understand the theory you are speaking of.