SAS - Putting my merry quips in red into your post:
Originally Posted by
SASless
Company SOP's differ between the GOM and the North Sea do they?
Of course, you don't think we would want to fly crazy like you do over there?
Same company....same aircraft.....some kind of task....but different Standards?
Yup, and your point is?.... But of course in reality, not the same aircraft in general - you are happy to fly folk around over the ocean in singles!
Sometimes i wonder how we ever manage to survive in the USA....considering just how little we seem to know about helicopter flying as thought by some here.
Fortunately there are a lot of you to start with.
HC....there is a huge difference between "Knowing" and "Doing"....and some Operators might ignore the EASA concepts of PC1 and all that....or as in the old days....Cat A.
But oddly, times do change even in the good ol' USA.
Yes I think they are actually, but only in the last few years. Certainly when the "globalisation" of Bristow was going on, maybe 10 years ago max, S76 was being operated GoM without any concept of OEI performance. Not sure if LW has caught up with that concept - seems not from his postings.