Antiskid Helicopter Landing Deck Nets are used on the offshore helicopter landing decks when more friction or support is needed on the sometimes icy or slippery landing decks. The needy are both the helicopter itself and the people who have to be and walk on the helideck. These people belong to personnel of both the ship or installation and the helicopter, in addition to the helicopter passengers.
The conventional solution has been a thick knotted rope netting, which has some unknown barrier type hindrance effect on the helicopter wheels. However, for the people on the helideck a thick knotted rope net is maybe more of a danger than of a help. The danger is especially in the dark and on bad weather, when visibility is bad. Neither any wheeled aides, like baggage carriers etc, cannot be used on knotted rope nets.
A modern alternative is the developed lightweight Frictape Helideck Landing Net. It is made of strong, weather-resistant, electrostatically safe material with a high-friction surface. The Landing Deck Net has a specified strength for the net itself as well as for the materials. The Frictape Landing Deck Net has a specified lifetime of 5 years or 10 years, depending on the type of use.
Frictape Net fulfills and exceeds all requirements from job safety and usability perspective. Frictape Net is durable, light, safe and easy to use. |
