Looking for Pictures of Oil Rigs at Night

[Shawn Coyle]

Specifically, I'm looking for some pictures of the approach to an oil rig at night. Can't find any on the internet - way too many pix in the thread of pix (unless you can point me to some specifically).
It's for a presentation I'm doing at the CHC Safety Summit on the differences between FW ILS approaches and RW approaches to oil rigs at night.
Help!

[Geoffersincornwall]

Shawn

Maybe this video will be of use. It was taken from the DV window (LHS) of a Dauphin during a night shuttle in the Forties Field (Central North Sea).

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YouTube - helicopter landing on platform at night (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZLmjLHGQFY)

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[Special 25]

Just take a picture of a Christmas tree in a pitch black gym hall and you won't be too far wrong.

[P1V1T1]

Merry Xmas all !!


http://trinidadenergyonline.com/images/oil_rig1_oqzg.jpg (http://trinidadenergyonline.com/images/oil_rig1_oqzg.jpg)

[magbreak]

Specifically, I'm looking for some pictures of the approach to an oil rig at night.

P1V1T1: Go around me thinks :ok::)

[MD900 Explorer]

Just some pictures i found whilst surfing the internet... maybe helpful..dunno.

http://www.oilrig-photos.com/pictures/1694.jpg

http://www.oilrig-photos.com/pictures/1692.jpg

http://www.oilrig-photos.com/pictures/1693.jpg

http://oilrig-photos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/174.jpg

http://oilrig-photos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/207.jpg

http://oilrig-photos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/995.jpg

http://oilrig-photos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/133.jpg

http://oilrig-photos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/143.jpg

http://oilrig-photos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/189.jpg

http://oilrig-photos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/198.jpg

http://oilrig-photos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/305.jpg

http://oilrig-photos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/127.jpg

http://oilrig-photos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/199.jpg

MD :ok:

[batboy1970]

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn52/batboy1970/Central_rough.jpg

[Droopy]

This image is completely made up in photoshop but to the best of my ability this is what a small unmanned platform in the southern UK looks like at about a mile. In the real world 1] the sort of camera one can carry on a flight isn't sensitive enough to capture a realistic image and 2] in conditions like this you really ought not be feckin about taking pictures. I'd welcome any comments.


http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c173/chestnut1675/Nightrig.jpg

[MD900 Explorer]

Just a couple of video's on you tube also....

YouTube - Oil Rig Night Landing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QvKVzXfiag)

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YouTube - EC-155 landing at night on oilrig A6-A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp1BXlTY1zw)

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MD :ok:

[Senior Pilot]

Shawn,

Only from short finals:

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[Shawn Coyle]

Thanks one and all for the pictures I did get.
I half expected someone to say that 'it's too dangerous to take pictures and cameras don't work that well for this' - and both are so true.
I'll put the presentation up after it's been given. Carries on the theme from DD's work in another thread.

[JimL]

With respect to the EC155 video on 'MD900 Explorer's' post (#9), this might be an appropriate time for these, and other, pilots to read the 'what is the circle on the helideck for' thread. The referenced paper on the use and abuse of deck markings can be found at:

http://www.helidecks.org/download%20files/Touchdown%20and%20Positioning%20Marker%20-%20Paper%20V1.5.pdf

The relevant passage is Paragraph 4.1.

Jim