Offshore Wind Farm Helicopter Search and Rescue Trials Undertaken at the North Hoyle Wind Farm

Brown, Colin (2005) Offshore Wind Farm Helicopter Search and Rescue Trials Undertaken at the North Hoyle Wind Farm. Project Report. Maritime Coastguard Agency, UK.

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Summary

These trials follow on from those undertaken by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in conjunction with QinetiQ and Npower Renewables at the North Hoyle offshore wind farm in July 2004 1. These had been carried out at North Hoyle with the co-operation of Npower since, at that time, it was the only large area offshore wind farm in United Kingdom waters. No critical assessment of search activities within and close to offshore wind farms had previously been carried out and the trials indicated that marine and shore-based radar systems would suffer some adverse effects when in their proximity. However no experimentation involving aircraft systems was made at that time. Therefore, in co-operation with C Flight, 22 Squadron, RAF Valley, it was suggested that trials involving search and rescue helicopters should be carried out. These took place on March 22nd 2005, using a Sea King Mark lll aircraft.

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