Wizzard
Well, terrorist issues aside, (I'm sure there are ways of blurring the detail without loosing the essence of obstacle environment and the orientation of the helideck), the question for us down here in Brasil may be a simple mathmatical one. There are 85 manned platforms for me to fly to and I work 13 days a month (15 ON 15 OFF) for 11 months of the year (I have 30 days leave months that must be taken as a single block) and visit an average of 2 decks per day.
It would take me just over 3 months to get back to the first deck I landed on. Would I be able to recall the detail I require? In reality, given the way these things go I'll end up visiting 10 decks 50 times and the first time a return to a deck is a year after my first visit only this time it's dark and I'm on Night Standby and my co-captain has never seen it before and we can't be sure, given the weather data available, whose landing it's going to be.
At the moment there is no HORG available, no HCA, no HLL and few of the luxuries we take for granted. The theme of the thread is how can we leapfrog to something even better than is currently available given that the committment and the funds are available.
Given the 3-D suggestion wouldn't it marvellous if we had an 'Electronic Flight Book' with 3-D images that could be oriented as required - I know - it's a pipe dream.
We'll probably end up with Jepp type plates but with more photos and better detail with a bit of graphic detail overlaid on the picture.