Offshore here from what I heard from pilots... it's pretty scary.. most of the rigs don't have instrument approach, just gps plotted. Not sure if around the globe is the same.
Yes the rest of the world is the same, just a GPS waypoint and then a generic procedure to bring you down visual into wind. Not permitted in Brazil from what I hear, so probably does sound scary, but is common everywhere else and with practice comes comfort.
Actually, flying an out-of-wind approach to a rig and then breaking off and stooging around VFR sounds scary to the rest of us.
