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01-25-2024, 8:11pm | #21 | |||||||
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PHI.... I grew up 30miles from their headquarters. In addition to oil rigs, they fly Medivac, I had one on my Helipad this morning dropping off a patient. Their birds and crew are second to none. Congrats to him. |
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@VITE1 if you were curious about some of the installations he will be going to and wanted to check them out:
Appomattox Olympus possibly the Shenzi West Vela Auger Argos Balder West Neptune etc |
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Flew PHI to rigs early 80’s. They were mostly old Hueys with plywood bench seating. Beat the crap out of ya |
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The 212's and 412's lasted for quite a while but are no longer in the Gulf fleet. They were still being used fairly recently in the Middle East and Antarctica. What base did you fly out of? There were roughly 14 bases in the 90's that I'm aware of and now there is basically 1 large base and a few ancillary heliports. Of course back then the operation was all on the shelf less from 5-100 miles offshore. Now the bulk of the operation is deepwater 100-230 miles offshore. The smaller aircraft operators have taken over most of what's left of production on the shelf.
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So one cool thing your son will have that is unique to the S92 is Rig Approach. The industry standard offshore IFR approach is an OSAP (or HEDA) which is a non precision approach that is essentially only possible directly into the wind. This isn’t always possible because of obstacles are within about 1/2 mile of the flight path when you’re flying below 900ft MSL. Sometimes you have to take less than ideal paths to make the approach. It can also force you into bad weather near the destination.
Rig approach is a precision-like approach similar to an LPV and it also includes a Decel phase. While an OSAP requires your course to be directly into the wind, Rig Approaches can be executed even with a 10kt tailwind which means you have a lot more freedom in choosing the inbound course. The crew defines the destination coordinates, parallel offset distance, offset side, missed approach height, and inbound course. The rig approach mode defines the transition. What’s cool about this is when in Rig Preview mode on the Nav page, you can visually see an overhead view of the final approach segment to verify you will stay clear of obstacles and weather. IMO it’s a much easier approach to setup and fly. The only con is if you’re at MAP 0.6 with a half mile offset at 200AGL potentially with 200-3/4 conditions; it requires a pretty significant course correction if your approach course is directly into the wind. You can add in your own biased correction by taking a crosswind approach course to help with this though. |
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