Originally Posted by
Phone Wind
If OGP mandated that all offshore installations or vessels working in the offshore oil and gas industry were fitted with AIS, it surely be possible to integrate this into the aircraft avionics somehow?
As far as I know all offshore installations and oil industry vessels are already fitted with AIS. So every floating rust bucket can see every other one. Just the helicopter crew that cannot! So yes, if the oil companies really were concerned about wrong deck landings, they would specify airborne AIS. It does exist, I've flown a helicopter with airborne AIS display (ironically it was a Bond L2!). They don't, because in the great scheme of things it is just something for the oil companies to be outraged about rather than a real safety issue.