Yacht-Helicopter Operations

Do you feel the need to be more knowledgeable about operating a helicopter on board your yacht?

Do you agree that helicopter operations entail special high risks to consider regarding the safety of your yacht, guests crew and yourself?

Commander Goote offers a very special service ensuring safe helicopter operations on board your yacht. Optimising your crew's awareness and effectiveness within the specific and unique environment your yacht offers, while these operations are ongoing. "Piloting" crew and owners in operating helicopters. 

In particular landing and taking-off in low wind, high temperature conditions and confined areas, such as harbours and bays, restrict a helicopter's engine power and space, and therefore it's ability to manoeuvre. Such operations demand high standards of awareness and understanding.

Making your yacht flight deck a hazardless environment requires also special attention to objects which easily become a hazard in the helicopters downwash (watch the big fender move on the video).

Design, preparations as well as proper and effective actions on changing circumstances, based on a thorough understanding of ship's and helicopter's limitations, are essential. The aim being to prevent the helicopter accident that could potentially happen on your yacht. This includes a safe arrival and departure of your guests and yourself, assuring that there is a safe and easy flight path for the pilot.

Services based on his qualifications and unique combined experience as a deck officer, ship's helicopter pilot and auditer of ship's aviation departments.

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Any comment on this one?

Watch the fender!

Good position for a take-off?