Helideck Monitoring System Wind Lidar
UK Civil Aviation Authority’s CAP 437 requires offshore helidecks to provide accurate, rotor downwash-free wind measurements to ensure safe helicopter operations. Non-compliance can result in restricted usage, reducing operational windows.
Traditional platform-based anemometry systems can be impacted with interference from platform structures. This impacts the wind data being monitored and restrictions on safe operations of the platform may be introduced in order to comply.
The ZX 300M wind Lidar delivers free-stream wind measurements above platform structures reducing or removing entirely the impact from any structures nearby. Compact and easily installed, ZX 300M provides precise, real-time wind speed and direction data without the need for elevated sensors or rope access. Benefits of a Helideck-integrated wind Lidar include:
CAP 437 Compliance: Unrestricted, safe helideck operations.
Efficiency: Extended operational windows and reduced costs from flight turnarounds due to changing conditions on the platform.
Versatility: Supports weather forecasting, structural monitoring, and wind data collection for any additional wind project development near the platform.
Extreme events can also be monitored and any results fed in to the design of new platforms.
