Helicopters and North Sea Oil
eBook - ePub

Helicopters and North Sea Oil

A Story of Service, Danger and Survival

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Helicopters and North Sea Oil

A Story of Service, Danger and Survival

About this book

A series of personal accounts by highly trained helicopter pilots, including those with distinguished careers in the military and commercial flying, who with divers, ensured that essential staff could operate in North Sea oil exploration and oil supply. They were the vital link in the process and operated in the most challenging circumstances, often in high levels of danger and sometimes with loss of life, for example, the Piper Alpha Disaster which made national news. And the ferrying of essential personnel and supplies could involve rescues as well routine flying missions. The narrative is often technical but written to ensure good understanding for lay readers and it will, of course, appeal to the many with flying experience in the forces, in commercial flying and government service. Above all, it is a series of graphic personal stories as recounted by individuals faced with extremes of climate, weather, technical, engineering and aeronautical problems and often with human life at stake. The people come to life and with domestic and social concerns and interests are 'real' and believable people. It is history of the North Sea oil episode in UK political and economic history and in conjunction with international oil politics is of huge importance to Britain's economy. This is a period of progress to domestic oil independence by about 1984 and so a key period with subsequent importance even to the present. All aspects of the operations are covered within individual stories, and include the broader questions of company policy, regulation, and trade union involvement.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Preface
  8. Forword By Barry Sheerman
  9. Chapter 1 The Beginnings of the North Sea Oil Boom
  10. Chapter 2 An Introduction to Helicopters
  11. Chapter 3 How Do They Do What They Do?
  12. Chapter 4 The Development of Helicopter Operational Capabilities
  13. Chapter 5 Training Helicopter Pilots
  14. Chapter 6 The Joy of Similators
  15. Chapter 7 Training Cabin Crew
  16. Chapter 8 A Day in the Life…
  17. Chapter 9 When Things Go Wrong
  18. Chapter 10 Close Shaves 1
  19. Chapter 11 Close Shaves 2: The Importance of Crew Teamwork
  20. Chapter 12 Rescue Operations: The Vee Skerries Rescue 9th September 1977
  21. Chapter 13 The Finneagle Rescue: October 1980
  22. Chapter 14 Diver Rescue
  23. Chapter 15 Ditchings – The Ditchings of G-BEID
  24. Chapter 16 Balpa and the Campaign for Flight Safety
  25. Chapter 17 The Piper Alpha Disaster
  26. Chapter 18 A CAA Inspector’s Perspective
  27. Chapter 19 An Oil Industry Perspective
  28. Chapter 20 Reflections on the Quest for Improving Safety: Helicopter Support for the North Sea Oil & Gas Industry
  29. Glossary of Terms
  30. Business to be Done
  31. Plates