All flights canceled today...
the more I learn about all the many restrictions for flights, the more I realize that it's when the choppers fly that should be considered weird...
-when the visibility is under 2 miles, no flights
-when there's freezing rain, no flights
-when it's beautiful now, but there's a RISK of freezing rain at some point, no flights
-when St.John's is nice, but the secondary landing site in case of emergency that's the city of Ganger is not, no flights
-when the pilots have been waiting to long (like 6 hours :S) and they "time out" so they are no allowed to pilot hence we end up with no pilots no flights
-when the choppers might have a mechanical problem every other day, no flights
-when the choppers have fixed that maybe mechanical problem but still have to complete 4 hours of test flights, no flights
-when regular maintenance needs to be performed, no flights
-when the winds are too strong or blowing the wrong way, no flights
-when the waves are too high or the rig/vessel moves to much, no flights
and I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple in there...
conclusion: I'll see you some time in Spring >:(
Friday, February 12, 2010
what-ever!
Posted by Bluefairie at 3:48 PM
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2 comments:
Obviously someone out there is trying to keep you and the other passengers safe!
Not really... someone out there is too cheap to fork the 2-3 helicopters missing in the fleet to make the service efficient...
we keep hearing "you work in the harshest environment possible" yet we don't get the harsh environment bonus or tax cut that others do
and the service provided do not take it into account either...
realistically, choppers will be able to fly maybe twice a week in this foggy shitpit that is the north Atlantic... make sure that on those elusive two days you have the means get everyone home!!
or eventually those people will get home in a stretcher for having worked too long and got hurt... it was decided that 21 days is the max people can work in a row out here... is it just a random number or is it because after 3 weeks of 12h shifts your mind goes numb and you put yourself more at risk...
some guys here are on their 26th day of straight work... crane ops, tool pushers.. working with heavy, moving machinery... how long before one looses a limb?
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