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Old 27th Aug 2014, 19:21
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helimutt
 
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Earlier in this thread Double Bogey made a very good post.

Jayteeto, please explain what suspension of the crew proves? Do you know the background to this flight? What if it was the end of a long tiring day, at the end of a long tiring week. Offshore flying is not the walk in the park all you pampered onshore types enjoy sometimes.

Where I fly offshore there are a number of checks in place before landing to try and ensure the wrong rig landing doesnt occur. Thats not to say it wont. For instance we have 3-4 jack up or drill rigs with very very similar identifiers in our gps database but called differently in reality. which we use for navigation to said rig. Now, a garmin 530 gps which hasnt had the rig position updated correctly, or the rig has moved, requires the waypoint to be removed from the programmed route, before we are able to update the waypoint gps position, then re-enter it, before we can Nav to it. So, add in some bad weather cells, a very low time co-pilot, after 6 hrs of flying in tropical temps. See the point im trying to make.

Yes you could suspend or get rid of the crew who make a wrong rig landing, but what exactly does that do? Just Culture?
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