Good responses all, chaps, but perhaps I should have made my point a bit clearer - why have the parameters been changed all of a sudden without this info being communicated to the chaps offshore, and why were other helicopters being operated to installations quite near us yesterday in the weather conditions which bondu has outlined?
We don't mind being stuck offshore, but we do get miffed when another helicopter passes overhead and lands somewhere else which is clearly experiencing the exact same weather conditions - the fact that it's a different operator to the one who's due to fly to our rig may or may not be relevant....
The contract we have indicates that flying can take place as long as the Dacon scoop can be deployed, and no, I wouldn't want to be "saved" by this piece of s
t either.