Day & Night Flying Rules Offshore
I have spent the last 30 years flying to and from many platforms in the North Sea both in the UK and Norway. And I have not come across any information from any of the helicopter operators outlining what the rules for flying are in daylight or at night. I think it might be prudent for the likes of Bristows, Bond and CHC to issue these rules to each platform/rig they fly too.
Also over this period of work in the oil industry I think it is about time that the "Mark One" eyeball method of calculating cloud height and horizontal visibility should be done away and be replaced with tried and tested instrumentation for cloud height and visibilty. As I have access to UKWebmet and very few platforms have this type of instrumentation etc for flying operations it should become mandatory throughtout the oil industry in the North Sea as we would get less ambigious weather reports from offshore.
J