Tuna spotting? Is this where the helicopter lands on a little pad on the back of a boat? Takes some skill, I would have thought! And where the pilot is often the engineer as well? And chief cook and bottle washer?
Just asking!
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deck is up front on top of the wheelhouse. right behind the deck is the mast and antenna farm. t/o & ldg on moving boat.. lots of flying-- usually a square pattern ahead of ship up to abt 60nm.
during my stint back in the late 80s pay was arnd 7k/mo or more if you unload more than once. now it's down to arnd 3.6k/mo. most boats then were american and yugoslavian-- now they're mostly korean and taiwanese. back then nav is time&dist although you have xpnder & you get vectored back if it is working.