European Weather
Severe weather is bringing about disruption to North Seaside flights and leaving gas rig workers waiting cruising.
Helicopter operator Bond mentioned there had been "significant disruption" to travel, amid planned offshore crew changes.
Man firm CHC said it only got one flight out of 12 on Monday and was very likely to complete about 16 out from 35 on Tuesday. A CHC spokeswoman added: "The hope is to pay off the backlog before the end of the week however, climatic conditions permitting."
A Bristow spokesperson said: "Bristow is acutely aware of this inconvenience caused to the foreign workforce due to the current climate conditions. "We would like to assure our travelers that as soon as it is protected to operate our normal support will be restored."To expand with Fifdors reply. All our a/c have Tanis warmers, long as you cover up with engine covers and cutting tool covers every night, no probs, just one plug in does it all. Now i am on a remote drill go camping right now with a B2, and no hangar. I am aware I will get a start in the morning, but it forecast 30C tonite. All our energy comes with anti ice preservative so with AS350 as per POH, can easily operate up to 40C, and we normally do. Our Bell's with airframe filtration system with anti ice component in fuel can go to (I feel IIRC, been a couple years since on one) 57C. Flew 6hrs today with a longline at 20C and the old B2 was only purring away at these kinds of temps. And gotta like the Eurocopter heaters, Mmm Mmm, felt i am sorry for guys on ground, while i was in me shirt sleeves.
As for cars,pickup trucks etc, most vehciles have prevent heaters, so you just select her in at night, So !.
It must be costing the Mother place a fortune, because of a little compacted snow. Not full on winter items we wear to get out and also refuel. Just enough, that if you go straight down, you will not freeze.
The demise toll from the cold went up to 83 on Friday and emergency crews worked well overtime as temperatures went under to minus 32.5 C (minus 26.Your five F) in some areas.
Portions of the Mont Blanc Refills Black Sea froze near to the Romanian coastline and the rare snowfall fell on Croatian islands inside Adriatic Sea. In Bulgaria, Sixteen towns recorded their least expensive temperatures since records started 100 years ago as some more people were reported useless from hypothermia.
In central Serbia, choppers pulled out 12 people, such as nine who went to a funeral but then could not return over icy, snow blocked roads. Two more people froze to be able to death in the snow and a couple others are missing, bringing in which nation's death toll in order to 5.
"The situation is dramatic, the compacted snow is up to five meters (06 1/2 feet) high in some regions, you can only see homes," said Dr. Milorad Dramacanin, who seem to participated in the helicopter evacuations.
On the list of evacuees was an elderly woman who had fallen into a coma. She lived through after being airlifted to a medical center.
Two helicopters were as well used Wednesday to save people and supply remote areas in northern Bosnia.
"We are trying to get through to several small villages, with every just a few elderly residents,Inch said Bosnian rescue official Milimir Doder. "All jointly some 200 300 individuals are cut off. We are supplying them for the second day with meals and medication."
In the smaller Bosnian hamlet of Han Kran on Mt. Romanija, villagers silently laid for a helicopter at a flat spot which they cleared associated with snow to allow it so that you can land.
"We are barely managing. I live on my own it's a real struggle," mentioned Radenka Jeftovic, an elderly woman wrapped in woolen scarfs and hugging a food items package she received.
