Sorry guys, but I put the blame firmly on the oil companies. We operate to many platforms off Denmark with next to no visible way of identifying the deck until very short finals due to poor markings, this situation has to be improved as we operate nightly in the winter a morning and evening shuttle service. Familiarity of the field is helpfull, but some of the working rigs as opposed to jack ups are virtually hidden underneath the production modules and many of the legs are not even lit
I am not for one minute defending a crew that doesn't follow their SOP's regarding indenting the platform before landing during the daytime, but come on, there has to be a better and safer solution especially at night in a congested field.
In their defence, the jack ups generally have a huge rig name on there Derrick, which is hard to miss
Anyone got anything constructive to add ???