Edition 9 of CAP 437 Standards for offshore helicopter landing areas has now been published.

It provides the criteria applied by the CAA in assessing the standards of offshore helicopter landing areas for worldwide use by helicopters registered in the United Kingdom.

This new edition includes updates and modifications to the material on helideck movement, meteorological information and helideck surface guidance; the bringing together of specifications for helideck status lights, monitoring system repeater lights and helicopter hoist status light specifications; and the simplification of protocol for regulating operations to NUI’s in abnormal states