So here at the training course at Falck Nutec you can learn plenty of stuff. I am learning the offshore survival suite, which includes aircraft ditch, sea survival and fire fighting. Its quite fun. If you can get the video to play you can see what they are doing to us when we "crash" our helicopter. Lord knows the training regimen here is about a thousand times more beneficial than that PEC Survival class I took in Lafayette all those years ago. In fact the whole european oilpatch is completely different than the US one.. Saftey is paramount and it certianly shows in the classes we're taking here...
The simulator is a super high tech gantry crane carrying a fuselage with real aircraft seats windows and harnesses. and they crash it into he pool with you in it and then tump you upside down. Its really quite fun in the right frame of mind...
Here I am with the kit on... this is how they ride on choppers here in the North Sea... No redneck tee-shirts and work boots... every-time they fly they wear a dry suit, a helmet, a life jacket, and a re-breather as well as a personal location beacon that tells the coast guard exactly where you are. and yes I said re-breather... I want it duly noted that I suggested that system 15 years ago in Lafayette and was laughed out of a meeting... Had I patented it I'd be rolling in dough right now...
The "fuselage" includes seats for eight victims and has two trainers on board and two divers in the water in case something goes awfully wrong but they assured us that they rarely kill anyone and if so it is usually because they were hard to deal with in class.
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