North Sea Windmill Parks

[lowfat]

Thought NHV were a Belgan AOC.... ergo not British based.....

Standing by to be proved wrong and publicly vilified.

[tigerfish]

Tees

As I said, this is not new. Its been going on for years.

tigerfish

[jayteeto]

Rotor Rookies article looks good. Shows a Bond Air Services 135 already in use in the UK. With trained crews and 'flight engineers/winch ops' already available, they must have a head start.

[lowfat]

365 n3 have a look

NHV - Helicopter winching on a windmill - YouTube

[fkelly]

Anyone able to indicate what power margins NHV are using in their safety case for WTG winching? The 365, even the N3, is way below the 135 in terms of HOGE OEI.

[Brilliant Stuff]

Uni-Fly have done 18.000 winch transfers since 2001 without a single incident.
They also have perfected a system of getting injured personell of the wind turbine by helicopter using the boatlanding platform. I am told some "experts" at the recent Helitech said you can't do that........

Bond et all have all gone to Uni-Fly to learn how it should be done...