Safety Alert
Safe Helicopter Operations
Safe Helicopter Operations
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 05-26
- Helicopter and Aviation
- Helicopter operationsLifting operations
- CraneHelicopter
- Simultaneous operations coordination
- HelideckOffshore installation
Summary
An offshore crew-change alert describes helicopter boarding interrupted by a crane lift from an alongside supply boat. After an uneventful return flight, the pilot found ten passengers rather than the eight manifested. Subsequent manifest checks and weighing established that the aircraft had exceeded its maximum allowable weight by approximately 308 kg.
Classifications: Helicopter operations; offshore aviation; rotary-wing operations.
Classifications: Lifting operations; load lifting; hoisting.
Classifications: Crane; cranes.
Classifications: Helicopter; rotorcraft.
Classifications: Simultaneous operations coordination; SIMOPS; simultaneous operations.
Classifications: Helideck; helicopter landing deck.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
Summary
The alert provides guidance on conducting helicopter operations safely.
IADC Alert 05-26. Themes: helicopter and aviation.