Originally Posted by SASless
Anyone know of an operator flying offshore in the Persian Gulf....in the Kharg (Khark) Island area? We have seen a helicopter landing at an offshore platform adjacent to the Saudi Aramco Marjan field and are interested in making contact with them in order to coordinate traffic advisories.
I am aware of Gulf Helicopters operating out of Kish (Qeyes) Island in that a dear friend is flying on that operation.
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ADA has three 212s working out of Kharg. Heli Union left a year ago. Gulf is in the process of vacating Kish as we speak. It'll be only ADA very soon. The 212s monitor 121.5 for talking to the flat tops and also the Busher radar frequency. They can see your aircraft across from Foruzan field but none of them are about to venture over an international boundary without a clearance so collision avoidance is not an issue there. If it were solid Iranian crews they might fly west thinking they were going east but these aircraft have foreign captains.