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Publisert: 1st sep. 2017 - 10:24
From Friday, CHC Helikopter Service will run the rescue service at Florø with this AS332L1 Super Puma awsar helicopter.
Super Puma takes over for Sea King in the Norwegian rescue service
May be more than one base where civil rescue helicopters are temporary for the Armed Forces.
The 330 squadron Sea King helicopter moves out of the hangar and comes in with a Super Puma helicopter.
Today, September 1, CHC Helikopter Service takes over the operation of the public rescue service Florø base. Here it will be civilian operation until the new AW101 helpline after the plan is in place in 2020.
Older Super Puma
CHC will run rescue service from Florø with two Airbus Helicopters AS332L / L1, one being backup stationed in Bergen.
In other words, this Super Puma helicopters was not covered by the 14-month flight ban after the Tury Accident, which applied to AS332L2 and EC225LP / H225.
The AS332s now inserted are older Super Puma variants with a completely different headgear than the one who has failed twice and cost 29 lives on the Norwegian and British shelf.
Both the primary and spare helicopter, which are placed on Florø, LN-OPX and LN-OMH, respectively, are all-weather variants (awsar) with night capacity and aviation. The last one does not have Sea King.
Squadron chief Svein Tore Pettersen in 330 says to the Armed Forces forum that at least four flycrews will be out of operational operation until all the bases are finished with new helicopters. According to him, it is first and foremost for the personnel that a civilian company takes over the preparedness, the access to the flight hull is reasonable enough.
"We are now building crews sent on training during late autumn or early winter. And the people in CHC are skilled. Many of them have a background from the Armed Forces, says Pettersen.
CHC Helicopter Service is contracted to run Florø in 2020. Following the Technical Weekly Bulletin, it is now being discussed to set up a further base for civil operation. In that case, it will be Rygge.
The helicopter now operating the public rescue service was previously stationed on the Heidrun platform.
Delayed new helicopters
As Tekniske Ukeblad wrote in June, in connection with the official opening of the 330th squadron's new main base at Sola, delivery of the first AW101 helicopters was already delayed.
After the plan it has been working for several years, the first AW101 machines were delivered in late March and been phased in one year afterwards, that is April 2018. In June, the wording of the Justice Department was that the helicopters were to be delivered during the summer and phased in during 2018 ». Now it is said that two helicopters will be delivered "in the fourth quarter".
"I can not be more precise than at the moment," says Bjørn Ivar Aarseth, chief of the procurement project Nawsarh.
He says that the military type certification was in place on August 10, but there are still some restrictions on operating profiles as well as radar and navigation equipment.
- Test flights will be conducted in October, with the aim that these operational constraints will be solved when the Air Force starts operational testing in Norway. Defense materials at Kjeller and the Air Force work very well and flexibly to get both this and that the helicopters can be put into operation as soon as possible, "says Aarseth.
Will avoid Sea King overtaking
Even though it is a matter of phasing out Sea King for operations for rescue services by 2020, some helicopters will probably be kept in operational condition for a further period. This is due to the fact that there are equipment related to the anti-terrorist role that may not be clear on the new helicopters by that time.
The Norwegian rescue service has 12 Westland Sea King MK43B helicopters divided into six bases. The original ten on ten helicopters were acquired in 1972. Two hulls have been lost. These were replaced in 1978 and 1992, while the last two were purchased in 1996.
However, the squadron never has access to more than eleven hulls, as there is always a helicopter at Kjeller for heavy maintenance, so-called IRAN inspection which requires about 35 man-years per helicopter.
"We work hard that all six bases will operate with AW101 in 2020. It is a realistic goal. In order to make the phase-in plan more robust, we consider, among other things, to discontinue the operation of another base in this phase. Then we will also release further sea transfers on Sea King, Aarseth says.
Leonardo Helicopters has built four Norwegian helicopters like all test flights at the Yeovil factory in England. Machine number five has scheduled virginity in October, while number six is due to be completed in early 2018.
In terms of training, litter two is in the process of simulator training on Sola . Techniques and pilots are trained in England, among other things, there has been a round of flight training in Newquay. In addition, the construction of standard base number three is in progress. It is located in Banak and is thus built according to the same template as Sola and Ørland.
For years with civilian operation
It is almost eight years since the base structure of the Norwegian sar service was increased to 6 bases, with Florø as newcomer in addition to Banak, Bodø, Ørlandet, Sola and Rygge.
Nor is it the first time the Armed Forces hire civilian preparedness to be admitted to sar service if one or more Sea King is on the ground with hooks or scheduled maintenance. In 2011, Airlift was first rented on Rygge with their AS332L1 Super Puma «Obelix» (LN-OBX).
The new helicopter hangar on Svalbard is dimensioned to accommodate the AW101 in a row.
In Svalbard, Air Transport operates two AS332L1 rescue helicopters for the Governor. Here too, it is facilitated for later operation with AW101, even though these are military helicopters and thus may conflict with the Svalbard Treaty.
In addition, there are several Sikorsky S-92A rescue helicopters that are central to the oil industry's emergency preparedness and operate side by side with the public rescue service. These were inserted after the latest Super Puma helicopters were put on the ground last year.
In fact, the Norwegian rescue service was civilian in its infancy: In the period 1970-1973, Helikopter Service operated the rescue service with Sikorsky S-61 Sea King pending the Armed Forces taking over its 330 squadron and new Sea King helicopters built on license at Westland.
The company, currently called CHC Helikopter Service, has been operating for 51 years on the Norwegian continental shelf. On July 19, 1966, their S-61 LN-ORE completed the first "crewchange". In addition, it was one of their helicopters who flew the first oil to land on Christmas Eve 1969.
There are many civilian rescue helicopters operating in Norway today. Here is the one AS332L1 Super Puma helicopter that Air Transport operates on behalf of the Governor of Svalbard.
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