bertfulker Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Good morning all, would anyone know if it is possible to use the North Sea oil rigs as a destination for S&R helicopters as part of a flight plan.As they are not listed as an airport in ADE I can't think of how to locate them other than by their coordinates. It is possible to land on them I guess as they have a helipad, although I have not tried as I am crap at flying 'copters. But I was not really interested in that just yet , I just wanted to use some of them as a waypoint for a circular AI flight. Any help would be much appreciated, and thanks for a great forum and many thanks to all the people out there that offer such valuable help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxsttcb Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Add them as airports using ADE. If you have the coords it will be easy. Create the airport giving it the locatiion info, a unique name, and ICAO. With ADE open, slew to that one. If the pad is landable you should be able to set the bird down on it. ADE upper right: "Connect", Right Click-> "Center on Aircraft" Now, if so desired, you can add a custom NDB close to it. Rinse/Repeat for the others. Alternatively you can create a single airport, located centrally to the field(s), giving it a large enough test radius to encompass all of the rigs. Slew to each, "Connect", Right Click-> "Center on Aircraft", and create an NDB...Don HAF 932 Adv, PC P&C 950w, ASUS R4E,i7-3820 5.0GHz(MCR320-XP 6 fans wet), GTX 970 FTW 16GB DDR3-2400, 128GB SAMSUNG 830(Win 7 Ult x64), 512GB SAMSUNG 840 Pro(FSX P3D FS9) WD 1TB Black(FS98, CFS2&3, ROF, etc.), WD 2TB Black-(Storage/Backup) Active Sky Next, Rex4 TD/Soft Clouds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertfulker Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 Thanks so much for the help, I'll have a go at that. I will get back to you and let you know how I get on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drifter69 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 one of those oil rigs in FSX has an NDB and also DME that oil rig is around 80nm miles out from ENFL, dme is 113.65 GFC and NDB is 333.0 GFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flattermann Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 one of those oil rigs in FSX has an NDB and also DME that oil rig is around 80nm miles out from ENFL, dme is 113.65 GFC and NDB is 333.0 GFC Can you please give me the coordinates, I didn't find this oil rig? happy landings! Christian:pilot: Intel i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHZ, 4 Kerne, 16 GB MSI RX 480; M. SATA WD 500 GB; WD RED PRO 2TB Win 10, 64 bit; FSX Gold Acc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScatterbrainKid Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 HELIPADS on OIL PLATFORMS There are about 30, some have NDB or DME - http://www.simtours.net/oilplatform.php This one is said to have the best graphics, it's in the North Sea at- LAT n52 12.02 LONG e3 29.21 http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub2/FSX-helipad-oil1_zps234069c8.jpg~original http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub2/FSX-helipad-oil2_zps00b303bc.jpg~original Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f16jockey_2 Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Can you please give me the coordinates, I didn't find this oil rig? Gullfaks N61°12'52" E02°16'24" http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/yy176/buffalo2602/2015-2-23_10-38-26-596_zpsbc014522.jpg North of it NDB SNR Snorre 375.0 West of it NDB STB Statfjord B 615.0 But these are only land stations floating on the ocean. Silly sight. http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/yy176/buffalo2602/2015-2-23_11-3-44-591_zpsf31b2248.jpg Also lots of oil platforms in the NL2000 package. The 3D objects part, no need to install the photoscenery (although I highly recommend it). None of them as Navaids though. Wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flattermann Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Thank you very much, I saw this on the map, but I didn't know if this is the right one! happy landings! Christian:pilot: Intel i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHZ, 4 Kerne, 16 GB MSI RX 480; M. SATA WD 500 GB; WD RED PRO 2TB Win 10, 64 bit; FSX Gold Acc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drifter69 Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Can you please give me the coordinates, I didn't find this oil rig? or take off from ENFL airport and fly a heading of around 255 and follow the NDB. GFC 333.0 or just type GFC into the GPS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flattermann Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Thank you, I got already the answer! Gesendet von meinem iPhone mit Tapatalk happy landings! Christian:pilot: Intel i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHZ, 4 Kerne, 16 GB MSI RX 480; M. SATA WD 500 GB; WD RED PRO 2TB Win 10, 64 bit; FSX Gold Acc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drifter69 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 and those other DME or NDB in the north sea area are also oil rigs, but you have to set the scenery complexity to very dense to see them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f16jockey_2 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Hey, you're right !!! What an idea ! The only scenery object as far as the horizon goes, and scenery complexity has to be set to VERY DENSE to see it. Microsoft logic I guess. Wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertfulker Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 Well I gave that a go and after a bit fiddling with the elevation got it to work. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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