DB,
Thank You for your presentation. It was very well written. I will give it a go when I do my Night Deck Landing practice next week. Here we hardly do any night landings except once every 6 months for currency only as the night standby is done by the 76 fleet. I would like to add one more point.... the night approach MUST always be carried out by the pilot with the obstruction on his side.
ARA approaches are fine for single one rig text book situation but when there is a cluster of rigs (and usually there is) and the one that you have to land is in the middle of the cluster and does not have a beacon it becomes a bit complicated.
I believe ARA is very useful for the North Sea where fog reduces visibility but does not have the violence of a tropical squall so operators in the tropics must be very alert for downdrafts and wind shear associated with a tropical squall.