Make your Fuel enough for the return trip plus reserve fuel and minimum inflight contents and you could add another 2400 pounds of payload assuming fuel being available at the Rig.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIkbhLXNg2w

I'm just waiting that the weisenheimer are spoofimg and tolling against Nick Lappos? but this courage they won't have!

Again, AW009, you are not addressing the OP relating to PC1 for clear area and helipads. You have introduced OEI OGE hover to this thread and all the performance charts and videos you choose to show here do not address that. Nick has even pointed out that

He goes on to elaborate that whilst OEI OGE hover is a good predictor for Cat A from a rig,

That 20% extra is a significant variation from the weight restriction demanded by adhering to OEI OGE hover limits; which is the topic of this thread.

I know Nick very well and am quite happy to take on anything we disagree about, but the weisenheimer in this (and some other threads) is you, AW009. Burst into a forum and throw your opinions and weight around and you should eventually expect a resistance, especially when you denigrate others who are debating the topic and not your offshoot/pet theory.

The empty drum makes the most noise as I heard it from my Grandpaw....AW is certainly making the most noise here at Rotorheads.

When Brother Dixson and Brother Lappos post....I read what they have to say and generally defer to them with scant argument. I might pose a question to them in hopes of having the esoteric principles that are the root of their input....but only in the hopes of learning more.

AW009 should try that for a while and listen to what so many are telling him.

For sure he doesn't know what he doesn't know and seems to think what he does know is correct when that is not necessarily the case.

There is a world of difference between the performance required for a helideck category A departure, HEC Class D and SAR HHO.

Whilst Nick is likely correct in his estimation of a correlation of 1.2 between the OEI HOGE and the departure from a hover whilst hoisting for SAR (where a fly-away with drop-down might be permitted) it does not necessarily carry across to rig departures.

HEC Class D is totally different in that the permitted reduction in height following an engine failure must not be more than the greater of 4ft, or 10% of the height established at the time of the failure.

When modelling the PC2e rig departures, establishing an accurate 'single' correlation between OEI HOGE and RTOM (for all types modelled) was quite difficult.

The rig departure has to take account of two elements: the deck-edge miss; and the single engine fly-away and recovery.

The deck-edge miss is sensitive to a number of elements:
These elements also have a bearing on the drop-down in addition to the reserve of power discussed by Nick. The length of fuselage also has an effect on the maximum mass for deck-edge miss - a smaller helicopter benefitting in this respect (for fairly obvious reasons).

The profile flown can also have a detrimental effect; this was shown in modelling by varying elements of the manoeuvre – e.g. the rate and magnitude of the PA as well as the time negative PA is held.

Variability was also observed in the flight trials of one of the types flown offshore; two flights with the same mass and environmental conditions (flown by different pilots) had a reduction of half the deck-edge miss and an increase of drop-down of up to 50 ft when negative PA was held for about a second longer. This difference could be explained by the lack of accuracy of the required cue (a set airspeed indication on the ASI) rather than just pilot variability.

Later procedures appear to address this inaccuracy by using ground speed on the PFD as the pitch up cue.

Jim

For those with not a lot to do.....wade through this document.

http://dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a243805.pdf

You are charm personified.....

Edit: Point taken, SP.

I think that the point has been made: it would be best not to make AW009 feel unwelcome in our forum, he may well have valid contributions to make in the future.