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The safety accomplishment is measured and secured by auditing the technical and operational organization regularly. This includes monitoring every flight through an anonymous analysis of the "flight data" from "the black box" with the purpose of optimizing the training of pilots. The helicopter's motor and transmission systems are monitored electronically for changes in vibrations - these are being analyzed before every flight take off.
Its HUMS / MARMS and HOMP The same as everybody else...
I bet you think electricity is white man's Magic?
from Dancopter...
The safety accomplishment is measured and secured by auditing the technical and operational organization regularly. This includes monitoring every flight through an anonymous analysis of the "flight data" from "the black box" with the purpose of optimizing the training of pilots. The helicopter's motor and transmission systems are monitored electronically for changes in vibrations - these are being analyzed before every flight take off.
Its HUMS / MARMS and HOMP The same as everybody else...
I bet you think electricity is white man's Magic?
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NHV, Bancopter or HeliHolland in Aberdeen bidding
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Possibly the rules have changed under JAA but there was, I believe, a time when, if engaged in a commercial operation, based in the UK, you would be given a date by which time you had to have your a/c on the British register, can't remember how long was allowed, I do remember a USA registered B737-200 operating out of LGW for about six months at a time, so maybe just a permit is required.
With judicious swapping of a/c probably get away with it and at the risk of repeating myself, under JAA it is probably all different now, just one big, happy family!
With judicious swapping of a/c probably get away with it and at the risk of repeating myself, under JAA it is probably all different now, just one big, happy family!
Last edited by parabellum; 7th Jul 2012 at 05:11.
This is EASA land.
The only reason they would reregister is IF the customer specified a
UK AOC. eg the Bond Irish contract that required a Irish AOC and reg of the heli.
The only reason they would reregister is IF the customer specified a
UK AOC. eg the Bond Irish contract that required a Irish AOC and reg of the heli.
The freedom for an European AOC holder to operate within any other European country is not as simple as many think. The flights have to be to/from a "community airport", with offshore installations and mobiles not qualifying.
So this means national boundaries still count for offshore support flights i.e. offshore flights are still subject to the rules of "cabotage".
The only way around this is if a national regulator grants permission for these rules to be varied e.g. the Dutch and British regulators have had a long running reciprocity arrangement. The allows for the current plan for the CHC AOCs in the Netherlands and UK to be merged.
What is very interesting with the Dancopter contract is that the Danish regulator has always refused CHC's requests for the UK AOC to be recognised in Denmark, hence the continued existence of CHC Denmark. The CHC Denmark S92s in Aberdeen at the moment are there under a short term "wet lease" basis.
I do hope the UK CAA are insisting that Dancopter establish a UK AOC. Or will they take the typical weak "British" viewpoint and feel like the have to "do the right thing" and follow the Europeans at the expense of UK PLC.
So this means national boundaries still count for offshore support flights i.e. offshore flights are still subject to the rules of "cabotage".
The only way around this is if a national regulator grants permission for these rules to be varied e.g. the Dutch and British regulators have had a long running reciprocity arrangement. The allows for the current plan for the CHC AOCs in the Netherlands and UK to be merged.
What is very interesting with the Dancopter contract is that the Danish regulator has always refused CHC's requests for the UK AOC to be recognised in Denmark, hence the continued existence of CHC Denmark. The CHC Denmark S92s in Aberdeen at the moment are there under a short term "wet lease" basis.
I do hope the UK CAA are insisting that Dancopter establish a UK AOC. Or will they take the typical weak "British" viewpoint and feel like the have to "do the right thing" and follow the Europeans at the expense of UK PLC.
at the expense of UK PLC
