Timeline for Can you land your private helicopter on Viking Line cruise ships?
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| Feb 11, 2020 at 20:10 | comment | added | vidarlo | @MonkeyZeus Most things are trivial if you have an organization in place for it, even immensely complex tasks, such as running a nuclear reactor or an airport. But wind gusts is not that altogether common at sea... :) | |
| Feb 11, 2020 at 20:08 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | @vidarlo Those choppers do that day in and day out and they have proper damage control in place. Somehow I doubt the cruise line would want the rented pilot of a famous basketball player to land on their ship. | |
| Feb 11, 2020 at 20:06 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | @Fattie If one was in an actual position to want to land their helicopter on the ship then somehow I doubt that the standard customer service line would have been their first line of contact. It goes back to the old adage "Well, if you must ask...". The .1%, maybe yes but it doesn't apply to us so we have to accept the 99.9% answer. | |
| Feb 11, 2020 at 19:46 | comment | added | Fattie | true enough, @MonkeyZeus - however, it's quite true that everyday customer service phone lines just wouldn't have a clue about anything mildly unusual. | |
| Feb 11, 2020 at 18:14 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | @Fattie The question already contains the answer; a swift No. | |
| Feb 11, 2020 at 11:58 | answer | added | Fattie | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 11, 2020 at 11:50 | comment | added | Fattie | None of the answers here have any factual information. | |
| Feb 11, 2020 at 6:22 | comment | added | vidarlo | @MonkeyZeus wind at open sea is usually stable. Offshore helicopters fly to and from oil service vessels and rigs daily. There's hundreds of offshore helicopter landings in the north sea daily. Accident don't happen every year. | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 21:25 | comment | added | Mikael Dúi Bolinder | If everyone were allowed to land their private helicopters on the ferries there'd be chaos. Imagine helicopter queues by the ferries. The risks of accidents without proper air traffic control would be enormous. Taking a helicopter to the ferry is fairly cheap, cheaper than buying the suite for full price. | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 20:18 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | It's kind of like asking your lawyer whether you can commit a bank robbery. Simple answer: no. The lawyer might have the know-how to get you acquitted but whether or not it is successful in court is a TBD situation. Same idea applies to your helicopter. You technically can with the right approvals and experience but calculating a strong gust of wind which blows your chopper into the tiki bar and killing dozens is not worth the money which you're paying. | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 17:02 | comment | added | kiradotee | I just had a funny thought but wonder if it's cheaper/easier to arrange a helicopter landing without the landing. I.e. flying to the ship and parachuting down... not the best idea, granted, but technically you're not landing with a helicopter... | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 17:00 | comment | added | kiradotee | It might be cheaper to fly all the way to the next country where the vessel stops than arranging and paying everyone involved an extraordinary sum. | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 12:41 | answer | added | Rsf | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 12:09 | answer | added | Dean F. | timeline score: 15 | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 11:01 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | @gerrit's idea may have some merit: arrange another ship to be close and helicopter to that; then transfer to the cruise liner with a dinghy which is an everyday procedure (although, if it is in mid-cruise, they would need to stop for the transfer which seems unlikely, but I suppose they would normally stop for a helicopter landing as well). | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 7:18 | comment | added | Num Lock | What makes you assume that customer service is not trained to answer such questions? The "real answer" is what customer service tells you. That's basically the whole idea behind customer services. | |
| Feb 9, 2020 at 22:13 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 9, 2020 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackTravel/status/1226566462934069248 | ||
| Feb 9, 2020 at 16:59 | vote | accept | Mikael Dúi Bolinder | ||
| Feb 9, 2020 at 14:56 | comment | added | Matt Douhan | Anything is possible if you have the financial means | |
| Feb 9, 2020 at 14:26 | answer | added | vidarlo | timeline score: 37 | |
| Feb 9, 2020 at 14:21 | history | edited | Mikael Dúi Bolinder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 9, 2020 at 14:12 | history | asked | Mikael Dúi Bolinder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |