Tam Airlines And Phi Helicopters In Offshore Bussiness!!!

[luisf4]

Does Any One Knows About That One ????
Just Came Freshout Brazilian News Here!!!!!
Would Like To Know More About !!! If Anyone Knows Please Share It!!!
By The Way Tam Air Lines Is The Brazilian Carrier ..... What Are They Doing In Offshore Bussiness Anyways????

[luisf4]

Thanks For Sharing !!!

I Bet Thats A Promissing Sector In The Brazilian Offshore Industry.... Will See It .

[twisted wrench]

Um Lifting;

Just to update you on who is in with who in Brazil:

ERA is in with Aeroleo ( you are correct Aeroleo was in with Air logistics(Bristow) some time ago) with 139 and 225īs

Bristow owns 49% of Lider (the largest offshore operator in Brazil) one S92 so far and 2 more coming.

[aclark79]

Unfortunately its doesn't sound like they will be sending many pilots down there, I'd love to go to Brazil.

[Soave_Pilot]

Just moved back here from the USA... Looks like TAM bought some 429's to do some air taxi in the Sao Paulo area... didn't hear anything about the offshore ops.

Offshore here from what I heard from pilots... it's pretty scary.. most of the rigs don't have instrument approach, just gps plotted. Not sure if around the globe is the same.

[DominguezPaulo]

Brazilian Offshore Ops.

I 've been flying in the Brazilian offshore area since 3 years ago and there're over than 90 oil rigs which just 4 have an intrument approach and what we use to do is make the procedure for these rigs and when reach VMC we continue the flight for the nearst non controled rig at low altitute such as 500 ft or 1000 .
The whole Bacia de Campos ( biggest offshore area ) has ATC services incluinding ADS-B system to providing surveillance.
I heard that there's the same system already working in gulf of mexico , is it true ?

[Revolutionary]

Yep, we've been operating using ADS-B in the Gulf of Mexico for about six months now. We're only using some of the ADS-B capabilities at the moment; ADS-B-out but not ADS-B-in (e.g. we are sending a transponder signal out but are not receiving traffic information, weather etc.).

It's been great; IFR routing is now almost direct, largely bypassing the GOM offshore route structure. And spacing is much closer. The other day we followed another IFR aircraft along the same route of flight and within just a few miles (close enough to be on Skywatch). As we were faster than the other aircraft, Houston Center directed us around them via a more direct routing, something they would have never been able to do before.

[malabo]

Offshore here from what I heard from pilots... it's pretty scary.. most of the rigs don't have instrument approach, just gps plotted. Not sure if around the globe is the same.

Yes the rest of the world is the same, just a GPS waypoint and then a generic procedure to bring you down visual into wind. Not permitted in Brazil from what I hear, so probably does sound scary, but is common everywhere else and with practice comes comfort.

Actually, flying an out-of-wind approach to a rig and then breaking off and stooging around VFR sounds scary to the rest of us.