JimL;
A quick scan of an old logbook shoes that you and I landed on the Alpha 11 times in one sortie in 1991, I've not bothered to count how many landings on that platform over a five year period, sadly it seems that the lessons learned on that operation over a considerable period of time have not been passed on.
With the benefit of hindsight a dynamic approach would have been better, I just wonder as well how much crew fatigue came into play. I always found that towards the end of a two week offshore stint I was utterly knackered.
VH