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Old 5th Mar 2009, 17:09
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tottigol
 
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Oh do you?
What customer other than MMS or the USCG requires helmets, not to mention NOMEX and NVGs?
I take it back, PHI apparently just started experimenting with the use of NVGs for night operations offshore by multicrew aircraft, that's why you wear the helmet, probably the nomex and personal air (we know you got plenty of that), but standard operations are not conducted like that.

And who said the water never gets cold below 57 or 50, we lost customers last year (to PHI of all companies, so much for their safety mentality) just because we stopped our single engines from operating in exactly those conditions.

Almost 1500 hours off shore in the GOM in the scooter (@ PHI), and I can tell you I hated every single one of them.

But we do get the EPIRBs and the "exposure bags" (even though nobody knows for sure how much of a surrogate they are for exposure suits).
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