Heliports

[Savoia]

This New Zealand based heliport (evidently in Auckland) has recently won an international design award:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/__dRpfF8qlVM/TW-BRdoxuQI/AAAAAAAAB08/ae_T2Jpl7aI/AHP%201.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/__dRpfF8qlVM/TW-BbzZAQbI/AAAAAAAAB1I/vbTqa91JDHM/s720/AHP%202.jpg

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/__dRpfF8qlVM/TW-BkoDmNUI/AAAAAAAAB1Q/Ue9ui1Mrv2k/s720/AHP%203.jpg

Nice to see a firm taking pride in their premises.

Well done.

S.

[Brilliant Stuff]

I can only see 130s / a Bell / a 355 and a 135.

Very nice.

[Savoia]

An opportunity to showcase the best (and worst) heliports, helipads and helidecks; past, present and future (designs), from around the world.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5262/5554642051_f97fc4dbaf_z.jpg
'Hooper Heliport' Home to the LAPD's Air Support Unit. Have flown out of this facility three times (twice during the day and once at night) with the former chief check and training pilot for the ASU in the mid-80's. (If anyone recalls his name I'd be grateful).

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5135/5554642057_e29e62a6b5_z.jpg
National Utility Helicopters heliport at Balikpapan in Indonesia.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5060/5554642061_bd6aab9cd0_z.jpg
Helipad at the Getty Centre, Brentwood, Los Angeles replete with monorail/transit vehicle (or whatever they are called these days).

S.

[9Aplus]

:ugh:that wall close to last one....

This is our running project Public Heliport Hvar, part of AHHNet (http://helifor.eu/heliblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/AHHNet.pdf)

Above link is pdf format file, in case you have any difficulty to open,
please use this heliblog link (http://helifor.eu/heliblog/?p=286) or dedicated group
(http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Adriatic-Helicopter-Helipad-Network-3168122)
http://helifor.eu/heliblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/hvar_helidrom_projekt1-1024x745.jpg


Situation Now (find helipad right, up, corner)
RED X

Few more panoramic of same site (large) PIC1 (http://helifor.eu/heliblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/panorama_ssm.jpg) , PIC2 (http://helifor.eu/heliblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/panorama_wsm.jpg) , PIC3 (http://helifor.eu/heliblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/hvar-007_2.jpg)


http://helifor.eu/heliblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/hvar_helidrom1.jpg
http://helifor.eu/heliblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/heilipadHvar_now.jpg

[Zishelix]

I wouldn't know where (among best or worst) this one belongs, but looks like an interesting place to land on :)
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_HUQckeW11qs/TYsx8oOwt6I/AAAAAAAAAaA/AEsuIANedkQ/c.png

Heliport Tallinn, Estonia

[9Aplus]

Copterline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copterline)

ill fated Copterline scheduled ops
first S76 crash than bankruptcy while
shine new AW139 (2) was still bellow
800 h t/t

[ryanboxer]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Helipad_at_Hospital_Tengku_Ampuan_Afzan.jpg


http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/attachments/yacht-escort-ships-shadows/11680-review-shadow-marines-paladin-r-44-helipad.jpg?d=1137591635

http://www.cruisewhitsundays.com/images/seaflight_helipad_000.jpg

http://www.offshore-technology.com/contractor_images/tsmarine/2-vessel-with-helipad.jpg

http://image62.webshots.com/162/2/73/66/432727366jlexpD_fs.jpg

http://images.travelpod.com/users/sugarstar/10.1249672913.helicopter-pad-at-the-gondola.jpg

http://www.shamozzle.com/KahuluiHeliportWebcamBlueHawaiianHelicoptersMauiIslandHawaii Photo.jpg

http://www.flightcheckltd.com/graphics/heliport.jpg

http://broomeair.com.au/images/heliport.jpg

http://asia.businesstraveller.com/files/News-images/Macau/Macau-Heliport.gif

http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/newsnow/2007/08/20070829_heliport.jpg

http://www.nwhelicopters.com/nwh/images/stories/heliport/img_3538.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_blEv6gfPmsY/R5VTSqEasgI/AAAAAAAAAiM/kXahe4EP4jg/DSC00092.JPG

[Zishelix]

Ryanboxer, if I may ask where this 6th from the top photo taken? Seams like an Gazelle on it :)

[Savoia]

The image with the R44 is infact the helideck of Shadow Marine's 'Palladin' - a vessel which was launched at the Ft. Lauderdale boat show in 2005. A further image of her (below):

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5251/5560004133_3b72837360_z.jpg

The 430 seems to be Seaflight's Barrier Reef pontoon. Some years back there was an incident on one of these pontoons between two aircraft (one parked and one landing) where the parked craft had failed to tie down its main rotor resulting in contact between the blades of the landing and parked helicopter.

Beneath Broome Heliport is Macau (Hong Kong).

The heliport with the 205's belongs to Brian Reynolds owner of Northwest Helicopters at Olympia Airport Washington State, Mt. Olympia in the background.

The link to the bottom image would appear to be Wall Street (NY).

Anyone able to identify the remaining shots?

S.

[Zishelix]

Morro da Urca Heliport Rio de Janeiro

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_HUQckeW11qs/TYtBnBScwtI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/eluS0vWo8is/b.jpg

[Hilico]

Blimey Zishelix, he's leaving the flare a bit late.

[Bravo73]

Blimey Zishelix, he's leaving the flare a bit late.

Not if he"s just leaving!

[Senior Pilot]

An interesting thread, but please tag the photo, there is no use in putting an image that we cannot identify!

As with all our Rotorheads threads and photos, don't use it as an excuse to put up a lot of photos that anyone can find by trawling t'internet. Unique, personal photos are what we're after :ok:

[Floppy Link]

SECC Glasgow
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc264/Boecopter/H02.jpg

[Savoia]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5304/5557349735_55047d4459_z.jpg
Home base heliport of 'Elikos' in South Tyrol, Italy. To facilitate additional movements they installed a pad atop their admin building.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5190/5566509421_03f4cb1060.jpg
Mt.Malarayat Golf and Country Club in the Philippines where the 19th hole is .. a helipad! An idea for PPRuNer Estepo perhaps (that's if he doesn't already have one!).

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5301/5566509423_69d8c1541f.jpg
The home heliport of Alpha Helicopters of Shimotsuma in Japan


Sav

[Savoia]

.
Contemporary designs include:

This rooftop pad for a proposed residential tower in the UAE:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/__dRpfF8qlVM/Ta-y1VaDn9I/AAAAAAAACzc/Y0G1f96utE4/s512/UAE%20residential%20tower.jpg

and a floating (relocatable) mini-marina with helideck:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/__dRpfF8qlVM/Ta-zE7MnPcI/AAAAAAAACzg/uS8Ra5QUNk4/floating-helideck-255729.jpg

Sav

[md 600 driver]

Sav
Estepo can use any of the holes but normally parks His gazelle feet from his office in the club house Coool

[helisdw]

Afraid it's not an offering from exotic climes (unless you count the North of England as foreign territory) but I guess it's got a certain aesthetic appeal...

I can lay claim to the photographic rights, but the flying rights go to a much more talented individual than me.

Leeds General Infirmary:
http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz92/helisdw/leeds_heli_pad.jpg

Simon

[9Aplus]

Helipad on yacht....

((c)Vladimir Ivanov / CROPIX)



Taken in Zadar, Croatia, 9A


http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww304/d9aplus/safety/jahta_3_390267S0.jpg

http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww304/d9aplus/safety/jahta_helikopter_390270S0.jpg

[Savoia]

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eywBBaF_yIU/TpkUjFVxhyI/AAAAAAAAFP0/_h1KQVpQ9Fo/s720/AS350B%252520HT1%252520RAF%252520Shawbury%25252022%252520Sep %25252011%252520%252528Michael%252520Brazier%252529.jpg
AS350B HT1 at RAF Shawbury on 22nd September 2011 (Photo: Michael Brazier)

In the final image displayed at the bottom of post #13 the pad displays the approach direction much the same as runway numbers. However I'm not sure what the numbers above signify - the pad number perhaps?

JimL to the rescue!

[212man]

Ryanboxer, if I may ask where this 6th from the top photo taken? Seams like an Gazelle on it

If you right-click the photo and look at the image info you can see this:

KahuluiHeliportWebcamBlueHawaiianHelicopters :ok:

However I'm not sure what the numbers above signify - the pad number perhaps?

Yes they are.

[belly tank]

Newcastle Regional Heliport NSW

http://rotorheads.com.au/log/newcastle04/approach_medium.jpg

[Savoia]

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-QUkQvMa9eIU/Tr4Gb_vkInI/AAAAAAAAGQc/2GjnMEeIMJk/s640/Oxford%252527s%252520John%252520Radcliffe%252520Hospital.jpg
John Radcliffe Hospital helipad in Oxford

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-F8Tgzoo1ybA/Tr4GcW3dlmI/AAAAAAAAGQk/0tO30MBR9Oo/s400/Simon%252520Nixon%252527s%252520helipad%252520North%252520Wa les.jpg
Simon Nixon's residential helipad in North Wales

[RPM AWARE]

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm295/captainkevlon/helipad.jpg

[Savoia]

RPM - very nice for a private pad. :ok:

A more accommodating approach/departure path one would be hard pressed to find.

Would you at least tell us which county it is in!

[ShyTorque]

RPM. I want them all to look like that! :ok:

(No, not the mower, or the driver).

[RPM AWARE]

ahh...thanks chaps, it's in Blighty, a little south-east of Londinium, rotary visitors always welcome but ppr because of the 4 legged security staff :ok:

[Savoia]

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-sXmr2F3KxAM/TulejYErgQI/AAAAAAAAG1E/NOsgxNPBrdE/s640/Life%252520Flight.jpg
US-based Life Flite helipad (assistance requested in identifying the location of this pad)

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-tid7hgucwHU/TulejZArHtI/AAAAAAAAG1I/8s-sI2QCMys/s512/Mumbai%252520Helipad.jpg
Office block? Apartments to let? No ... but the home of Indian entrepreneur Anil Ambani and his (extended) family who are ensconced in this Mumbai-based building named 'Sea Wind' and which recently had a helipad installed for ease of access

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_7AApa6He0M/Tuleu1ZqKCI/AAAAAAAAG1M/3LBlM8My5Ys/s800/Royal%252520Melbourne%252520Hospital%252520Helipad.jpg
Royal Melbourne Hospital's rooftop helipad

Civil Ops for DC Heliport?


The manager of Washington, D.C.’s South Capitol Street Heliport (09W) said he is optimistic that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will approve a plan that complies with security requirements which will permit the reopening of the facility to corporate traffic. Heliport manager Don Scimonelli said an interagency group is “working on a good solution” that would let security-cleared aircraft back in to 09W but that the development was “still brand new.”

The heliport is located on the Anacostia River one mile northeast of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) and is home base to D.C. Metro Police’s aviation unit and select transient medevac and military flights. The facility opened in 1988 and at its apex had 41 regular corporate operators. After 9/11 and until 2005, limited commercial operations were allowed at 09W provided they complied with FAA Notams and TSA requirements; however, since then they have been prohibited because of security concerns.

Scimonelli credited the intervention of D.C. congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton for moving the TSA to reexamine its civil traffic ban on the heliport. Last November, Norton, a senior member of both the House Aviation Subcommittee and Homeland Security Committee, sent a letter to TSA Administrator John Pistole that urged a reconsideration. Norton said the government’s action amounted to “takeover of a private facility without compensation” despite “the willingness of the heliport to submit to whatever structures and regulations the government chose to impose on them.”

Her objection was echoed in an earlier, and unsuccessful, lawsuit brought against the federal government by Air Pegasus, the heliport’s operator between 1992 and 2002.

The U.S. Court of Claims dismissed the lawsuit that, in effect, charged the government with a de facto unlawful taking of property via regulation. The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld that ruling, noting that it is the government’s right to control airspace, and that a private party’s property rights do not extend to said airspace. The Appeals Court noted that while the FAA action may have adversely impacted Air Pegasus, “there was not a taking of any cognizable property interest of Air Pegasus.”

Norton is recommending that 09W be reopened with security requirements for private aircraft that mirror those already in place at DCA, including nonstop flights only, designated gateway airports and heliports, and passenger and crew screening. She said continuing to deny civilian use of 09W is “a violation of due process” and “punitive” to the local economy.
At the time civil service to the heliport was suspended there were plans in the works to establish scheduled helicopter service between it, the Wall Street Heliport in New York City and commercial airports in Washington, D.C., and New York.

Scimonelli said the heliport sees an average of two to three operations per day, but that some 15 corporate operators have expressed an interest in resuming flights there. If these flights do resume, he said he expectd they initially would amount to no more than one to two additional operations per day. “They will not be coming in droves,” he said.

For now, Scimonelli said the volume of military and medevac flights using the heliport is increasing. Medevac flights landing at 09W primarily are transporting patients to Washington’s George Washington or Children’s hospitals or the John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore. Occasionally, medevac helicopters are forced to remain overnight due to winter weather concerns. Scimonelli said those flights typically are cleared to the heliport under special VFR. Work on an instrument approach to 09W was suspended in 2005, he said, because the heliport owner “did not have the money to complete it. Our growth has been stunted.”

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-c22joMx6Mbo/Tulerm91GsI/AAAAAAAAG1Q/5yGcQ95gpDc/s500/WDC%252520HP.jpg
Washington DC’s South Capitol Street Heliport

[Savoia]

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-5LSXwyRovas/TzSlVwqBz8I/AAAAAAAAHyU/iaKqGwNkaug/s640/Helipad%2520at%2520Blessington%2520Lakeside%2520Resort%2520C o.%2520Wicklow%252C%2520Eire.jpg
The helipad at the Blessington Lakeside Resort, County Wicklow, Eire

[Senior Pilot]

A reminder: as I asked in Post No 13 (http://www.pprune.org/6328897-post13.html):

As with all our Rotorheads threads and photos, don't use it as an excuse to put up a lot of photos that anyone can find by trawling t'internet. Unique, personal photos are what we're after :ok:

[FullTravelFree]

Does anyone have pictures, links, info to share
about heliports on barges or pontoons?

I already searched the web, but it mostly comes up with the big ones,
London / NY etc... We're looking for something smaller.
It must have been done before...

Thanks! :ok:

[9Aplus]

We proposed one year ago on French riviera.... paperwork
still not done. 25x25 m size
Check your PM pls

[Savoia]

FFT: Find a copy of Stockholm's 'Gamla Stan' heli-pontoon here (http://v8.cache4.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/47951.jpg?redirect_counter=2).

Have landed at this tiny floating pad on each occasion I have visited Stockholm, courtesy of Arlanda Helicopter (http://www.arlandahelicopter.se/index-eng.php)

[Savoia]

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-AqhurklKf_M/UEzPbd7q4GI/AAAAAAAAJmo/1yxGRZUkz8E/s510/Trondheim+St.+Olavs+Norway+18+Aug+12+%28Kim+Vanvik%29.jpg
The new helipad at St. Olav's Hospital in Trondheim, Norway, as seen during the evening of 18th August 2012. The light trail is from a departing AW139 (LN-OLS) belonging to Norway's Lufttransport (Photo: Kim Vanvik)

[HeliStudent]

I've found a useful list of heliport and general helicopter terms - there are also a number of illustrated links.

Should be useful for anyone involved in heliports or heliport planning. :ok:

Heliport Terminology (http://www.heliplanners.com/news.htm)

[JimL]

Helistudent,

Yes, but it does differ slightly from ICAO Annex 14 with which all design codes are suppposed to be in compliance.

Jim

[nomorehelosforme]

Any pictures of the brand new landing pad there?

[HeliStudent]

Thanks JimL :ok:

Some of the bits I found interesting and which don't seem to be much talked about - -

Final Approach and Takeoff Area (FATO): A defined area over which the final phase of an approach to a hover, or a landing, is completed and from which the takeoff is initiated. Also called the primary surface.

FATO diagram (http://www.heliplanners.com/EXHIBITS.pdf)

Final Approach Reference Area (FARA): A 150-foot wide by at least 150-foot long obstacle-free area located at the end of a precision instrument approach with its center aligned on the final approach course.

Transitional Surface: An imaginary surface that extends up and out from the lateral boundaries of the primary surface and approach/departure surfaces. For heliports, the transitional surface's slope is two feet horizontal to one foot vertical. It extends laterally to 250 feet either side of the centerline of each designated approach/takeoff path.

Transitional Surface diagram (http://www.heliplanners.com/EXHIBITS.pdf)

Touchdown and Liftoff Area (TLOF): A load-bearing area, normally centered in the FATO, on which the helicopter lands or takes off. The TLOF is frequently called a helipad or helideck.

So if I've understood this correctly, to land a helicopter you need to follow a FATO to the FARA using a transitional surface before landing on a TLOF?

Any pictures of the brand new landing pad there?

A new landing pad in Bolivia yes. I'm thinking that maybe the TLOF limits on this pad could be too small?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/q84/s720x720/1011982_478824322195571_504626136_n.jpg

[Gwellbeing]

MACCHIARELLA Heliport in Italy.

http://195.103.234.163/Applicazioni/avioeli/foto/564.jpg

helicopterkits.********.com/2013/08/italys-incredibly-large-fleet-of-civil (http://helicopterkits.********.com/2013/08/italys-incredibly-large-fleet-of-civil.html)

Mansion in Hawaii with rooftop Helipad (https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cheaper-Choppers/67021997415?ref=hl)

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1044551_10151815732337416_855006984_n.png

Happy Heliport (http://helicopterkits.********.com/2013/09/splendid-houses-with-helipads-in-united.html):)

http://images.onset.freedom.com/ocregister/gallery/mttlbt-birdseyeview.jpg

[Gwellbeing]

Heliports of Broad Group: inequalityreduced.********.com (http://inequalityreduced.********.com/2013/10/rise-of-supertall-skyscrapers-all-over.html)

http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2013/09/P1040194.jpg.662x0_q100_crop-scale.jpg

[Savoia]

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-67xdUqlMTbs/UqGSpqtiVHI/AAAAAAAAPtc/F1lRb3_GUg4/w881-h584-no/Helinet+N253WC+Rocky+Oaks+Estate+Vineyard+Milubu+Helipad.jpg
Helinet AS355 TwinStar N253WC upon the stone-built helipad belonging to the Rocky Oaks Estate private vineyard in Malibu, California

[John R81]

Defence Ministry building, Tel-Aviv.

http://i785.photobucket.com/albums/yy133/Nuthurst1/Helicopter/TApad.png