Training and Workforce
Eurocopter offers training for helideck landing officers
Eurocopter Training Services (ETS) will offer a training module for helideck landing officers (HLOs), the surface personnel in charge of helicopter operati

Eurocopter Training Services (ETS) will offer a training module for helideck landing officers (HLOs), the surface personnel in charge of helicopter operations on offshore oil platforms, starting in the middle of next year. The company sees a major market in regions such as Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia, where HLOs receive little training, according to ETS officials.

“Apart from the North Sea, where training is well structured, in many places the oil companies’ HLOs receive only brief training,” Ludovic Leroy, ETS’ sales director for the offshore segment, told AIN. It can consist of as few as two hours at the operator’s headquarters. Some HLOs are dedicated to this role, when the frequency of aircraft movements is high enough– 24 to 30 per day, Leroy said. In other cases, they also have other responsibilities on the platform.

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