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re: Aircraft down in GOM (Dec 29, 2022)
Posted on 12/30/22 at 5:09 pm to redstick13
Posted on 12/30/22 at 5:09 pm to redstick13
No it's not, you'd see the belly. RLC aircraft are very light tan. That's just the skids, no airframe.
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Posted on 12/30/22 at 6:01 pm to Tigeralum2008
Try swinging from a handrail when seas are 8 plus feet. Good times. Glad I’m out of the oilfield
Posted on 12/30/22 at 6:09 pm to redstick13
quote:
Bird is upside down under the skids and floats.
So when they say they found pieces of the helicopter that's because they haven't looked right underneath the water.
Some of y'all post shite like you're so sure.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 6:20 pm to Saintsisit
quote:pretty sure that guy just wanted everyone to know he took HUET.
Some of y'all post shite like you're so sure.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 6:26 pm to Saintsisit
The word going around offshore immediately after among the pilots was that it was floating upside down (which normally means it wasn’t that bad and very good chance for survivors).
Looking at the pic now it’s obvious the cabin ripped off from hard awkward impact and sank (not good).
My guess is impact with something on tail rotor or engine failure then impact with platform before flipping into the water hard
Looking at the pic now it’s obvious the cabin ripped off from hard awkward impact and sank (not good).
My guess is impact with something on tail rotor or engine failure then impact with platform before flipping into the water hard
This post was edited on 12/30/22 at 6:49 pm
Posted on 12/30/22 at 6:58 pm to choppadocta
I work in avionics, also wont say for who, but i bet if i dont know you we know a lot of the same people.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 7:19 pm to wileyjones
quote:
pretty sure that guy just wanted everyone to know he took HUET.
I never took HUET and if I did what would compel me to brag about it? Is it considered some major accomplishment?
This post was edited on 12/30/22 at 7:31 pm
Posted on 12/30/22 at 7:19 pm to LittleJerrySeinfield
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robably a dumb question, as I know helicopters are much faster than boats, but wouldn't boats be the safer way to transport workers
Tell me you have never swung roped without telling me you have never swung roped.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 7:21 pm to Ol boy
quote:
Tell me you have never swung roped without telling me you have never swung roped.
That shite makes me nervous just watching it.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 7:21 pm to choppadocta
quote:
No it's not, you'd see the belly. RLC aircraft are very light tan. That's just the skids, no airframe.
My mistake then. I was basing my opinion on what looked like a rotor floating with the skid debris.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 7:25 pm to Saintsisit
quote:
So when they say they found pieces of the helicopter that's because they haven't looked right underneath the water.
Some of y'all post shite like you're so sure.
My mistake then. I was basing my opinion on what looked like a rotor floating with the skid debris
Posted on 12/30/22 at 7:26 pm to Ol boy
My coworker recently took HUET and the instructor asked the class to guess how many flights there are in the GOM monthly.
The highest guess was like 3000.
I’m pretty sure the instructor said something like 200K per month.
People bring up helo crashes and it makes everyone wonder about safety and all that but the reality is that they’re a minuscule percentage of flights that go down.
I’d prefer a helo flight over a boat ride all day every day and twice on Sunday.
Eta I am also in the camp that a helicopter is a modern miracle of aviation. That sumbitch is magically able to fly.
The highest guess was like 3000.
I’m pretty sure the instructor said something like 200K per month.
People bring up helo crashes and it makes everyone wonder about safety and all that but the reality is that they’re a minuscule percentage of flights that go down.
I’d prefer a helo flight over a boat ride all day every day and twice on Sunday.
Eta I am also in the camp that a helicopter is a modern miracle of aviation. That sumbitch is magically able to fly.
This post was edited on 12/30/22 at 7:28 pm
Posted on 12/30/22 at 8:01 pm to jambrous
quote:
I work in avionics, also wont say for who, but i bet if i dont know you we know a lot of the same people.
Spark chaser eh? You can have it. Eyes getting too bad to re-wire a 50 pin Cannon plug. What's the part number of that replacement magic smoke incase I need to order some next time I'm messing around with a soldering iron?
As for knowing you or the same people, helicopter aviation in the GOM is a small small world, highly probable.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 8:38 pm to LittleJerrySeinfield
quote:
Probably a dumb question, as I know helicopters are much faster than boats, but wouldn't boats be the safer way to transport workers?
As everyone else said.. frick a swing rope. Nothing like standing on a “+10” that’s really only 6 feet or so above the water, in rough seas, and looking up at the back of the boat they expect you to swing onto. I haven’t worked offshore in years, but to this day it amazes me that swing ropes are still an acceptable method to transfer personnel.
Granted, that’s generally only on non-crewed platforms (or when the crane is fricked up) but still.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 9:07 pm to lostinbr
My brother and I worked in Mexico in the Bay of Campeche one summer and had to swing every day we were out there. The worst part was that we would have to ride the crew boat back to port for whatever medical care we would receive if we were injured.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 9:22 pm to matsuflex
Regardless of training, when you KNOW. It’s coming, when FUBAR and Mr Murphy collude when least expected - the seconds wasted realizing what just happened can be fatal- especially when combined with the jolt of splashing and any trauma associated with that.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 9:28 pm to choupiquesushi
Glad that u and peeps are safe choppadocta...(whatever your name is. Lol) Tragic for those lost, prayers..
Somebody please post vids of swings, baskets and climbhing ropes for us non baw, land lubbing, non oil working, only ridden in a helicopter twice people.
Thanks...
Somebody please post vids of swings, baskets and climbhing ropes for us non baw, land lubbing, non oil working, only ridden in a helicopter twice people.
Thanks...
Posted on 12/30/22 at 10:04 pm to WWII Collector
No videos because I’m lazy.
Swing rope:
Of course when you Google “swing rope” you see a bunch of really tame looking examples on nice facilities in calm waters. None of these pictures do justice to some of the shitholes you deal with when actually using a swing rope in the GOM.
Man basket:
Basket requires a crane with operator on the platform, which is why swing ropes are used for transfers to unmanned satellite platforms.
Swing rope:
Of course when you Google “swing rope” you see a bunch of really tame looking examples on nice facilities in calm waters. None of these pictures do justice to some of the shitholes you deal with when actually using a swing rope in the GOM.
Man basket:
Basket requires a crane with operator on the platform, which is why swing ropes are used for transfers to unmanned satellite platforms.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 10:28 pm to dkreller
quote:
People bring up helo crashes and it makes everyone wonder about safety and all that but the reality is that they’re a minuscule percentage of flights that go down.
Yeah I know of two people that have crashed my pawpaw did back in the late 70s and lived and another ol boy I work with crashed several years ago and lived.
I know way more people that have gotten in wrecks on their way to crew change. I sleep very well knowing I’m on a multi million dollar well serviced helo and my odds of dying from it or way lower than the moron texting and driving his Honda accord with his knee doing 80 on the interstate.
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