yes
but to put teeth into just the basic of safety standards we are proposing the
Pilot Distraction Penalty Clause
Any distraction from the pilot from concentrating on just safely flying the helicopter has the following fines.
The rigs AWOS weather is OTC fine.
$1,000 fine, pilots gets $100 dollars each, Duty time is reduced by 1 hour
Your walking out the helicoter and the dispatcher runs out with a "Just One More" box, passenger,leg to your manifast.
$1,000 fine pilot gets $100 and duty day is reduced by another hour
Your fly out and try to make your 20 min call you make 14 calls, sat messages, your dispatch make several calls.
$1,000 fine pilots gets another $100 and another reduction of duty day.
You call at 5 mins and they are still not ready. Not like this flight has been schedualed for two days.
1,000, 100 another hour off
You find the wind is adverse not allowing a performance 1 or PC2 approach
another 1,000 100 and hour
you land and you have to pump your own fuel
another 1,000 100 and hour
Another manifest change distraction on the inbound
another 1,00 100 and hour
you fly back onshore. Your out of duty time fill out the report for the $7,000 in fines collect your additional $700 for the day and head home.
Intill the basic of safey distractions in communications, changing dutys from pilot, line service, manifest changes , are addressed with penalities having higher tech FDR's does not keep helicopters out of the water,marsh or dirt.