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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:40 pm
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Hi everyone.

I'm posting this as promised this afternoon during the Sunday World Tour Flight. It was posted at Hovercontrol and was done because the member wanted to know where all of the oil rigs were in FS9, and had too much time on his hands, as he posted below. If you fly helicopters like myself, it is a good thing to know an interesting place to practice landing on a small pad. Take it from me, it takes a lot of practice to set a chopper down on one of these rigs, especially if you are flying real weather. The winds can make it tough.

Whilst on holiday and with a little too much spare time on my hands, I have sought about tracking down a list of all landable oil rigs in the default FS9 scenery. I found a few lists on the web, but none were complete. This is a complete list, taken from an extensive search through the default BGL files. There are 31 of them, in fact. Some (North Sea, Persian Gulf to name a few) have navaids co-located with them for easy navigation. Obviously, the only thing that can land on them is a heli (and the only part which is landable is the helipad.. i've learned through bitter experience)

The trick is that you need to have your Scenery Complexity set to "Very Dense" in order to see any platforms outside the US. The scenery models used in the US are exactly the same as those used elsewhere, it's just that the rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the US, as we all know.

The titles for each area correspond to the scenery files they came from. The North Sea is in the "Ocen" folder which I always thought meant 'oceania' but in reality probably means 'ocean'.

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I checked out all the only default oil rigs that had any navaids were the rigs outside the U.S. None of the rigs in the GOM or other North American locations had any navaids.

Here are the navaids I found using your list -

Africa NDB DME
lat=N 5 23.2488 lon=E 4 54.2145

Asia
lat=N 24 50.00352 lon=E 53 35.99262 373.0 2BD
lat=N 24 53.75148 lon=E 53 42.74706 258.0 NSP
lat=N 24 30.50442 lon=E 53 42.13236 420.0 CFP
lat=S 8 3.86238 lon=E 144 33.63402 1737.0 KUT

Europe W
lat=N 64 16.25154 lon=E 7 11.98422 310.0 NJD
lat=N 55 28.19088 lon=E 5 8.05092 355.0 DON

North America ©
lat=N 29 26.03334 lon=W 93 27.36666
lat=N 29 22.90002 lon=W 92 59.20002
lat=N 28 41.93334 lon=W 91 13.91664
lat=N 28 39.96666 lon=W 89 58.16664
lat=N 36 19.04856 lon=W 93 55.73214
lat=N 21 43.16664 lon=W 89 17.50002
lat=N 29 31.11666 lon=W 93 16.99998
lat=N 28 51.66522 lon=W 91 52.7625
lat=N 29 22.3167 lon=W 91 23.1
lat=N 28 45.76668 lon=W 91 24.25002
lat=N 28 40.45002 lon=W 90 9.46668
lat=N 28 5.83332 lon=W 90 47.66664
lat=N 30 11.33532 lon=W 87 57.15582
lat=N 29 5.59998 lon=W 89 45.49998
lat=N 28 29.51664 lon=W 95 55.15002
lat=N 27 43.68336 lon=W 97 14.95002
lat=N 33 30.74322 lon=W 77 36.50676

North Sea
lat=N 65 19.53504 lon=E 7 18.94344 340.0 HEI 115.05
lat=N 61 12.39156 lon=E 1 49.75908 615.0 LF6
lat=N 61 26.9652 lon=E 2 8.49504 375.0 SNR
lat=N 60 29.4672 lon=E 2 49.50522 353.0 OBA
lat=N 58 21.99996 lon=E 1 54.4167 349.0 SPA 115.5
lat=N 57 6.633 lon=E 2 50.682 380.0 ULA
lat=N 56 38.4837 lon=E 3 19.5333 375.0 TR

I moved the first entry on your North Sea list (lat=N 33 30.74322 lon=W 77 36.50676) to the North America list as it was off the coast of North Carolina.
I am not sure these are all of the default oil rigs there are in FS9. I know of one oil rig off Port Clarence, Alaska that is not on this list. It's lat/long is N065* 12.32' W166* 45.83'. I am sure there are probably other "missing" rigs scattered about the world. If anyone knows of any other oil platforms than those on the list, please let us know.
The first three rigs listed in the Asia list are north of the U.A.E while the last one in the Asia list is south of New Guinea.
Surprisingly, one of the oil rigs on the North America list (lat=N 36 19.04856 lon=W 93 55.73214) sits in the middle of a lake near Garfield, Arkansas which is several hundred miles inland from the Gulf Of Mexico!



Posted originally at Hovercontrol by:
greaneyr (Richard) (HC051GR)

and updated with Navaids by:
LifeGuard911 (HC011LI)

They also had an addition of the Rigs in FSX. Here they are:

It seems that most of the locations in FS9 are also in FSX.

The following is a list of FSX locations I have verified so far. It's not a complete list but maybe you might find it somewhat useful nonetheless. It may have also been useful if I had included the FS9 locations verified NOT to exist in FSX but I can't seem to find that info right now.

Offshore Oil platforms (FSX) (verified so far)

Note: All pads approx 120ft MSL
Rig (name fictitious, for map correlation purposes)

Gulf of Mexico
Mike N30 11.34 W87 57.13 16nm 249° from KJKA Edwards, AL; 26nm 170° BFM 112.8; 34nm 254° NPA 117.2
Xray N28 40.44 W90 09.45 47nm 173° from L49 South Lafourche, LA; 69nm 150° TBD 112.0; 30nm 185° LEV 113.5
Alpha N28 41.91 W91 13.90 61nm 174° from KPTN Patterson, LA; 62nm 199° TBD 112.0; 66nm 243° LEV 113.5
Beta N28 45.77 W91 24.20 57nm 183° from KPTN Patterson, LA; 62nm 208° TBD 112.0; 73nm 249° LEV 113.5
Charlie N28 51.67 W91 52.74 58nm 208° from KPTN Patterson, LA; 73nm 227° TBD 112.0; 95nm 257° LEV 113.5
Delta N29 22.32 W91 23.08 20nm 186° from KPTN Patterson, LA; 34nm 238° TBD 112.0; 68nm 279° LEV 113.5
Lima N29 22.88 W92 59.18 46nm 163° from KLCH Lake Charles, LA; 46nm 171° LCH 119.4; 36nm 240° LLA 110.4
Lima2 N29 31.11 W93 16.97 37km 183° from KLCH Lake Charles, LA; 39nm 192° LCH 119.4; 48nm 257° LLA 110.4

Texas
Papa N28 29.51 W95 55.12 20 nm 081° from 72TA Pierce Field, TX; 26nm 125° PSX 117.3; 29nm 183° BYY 344.0
Corpus N27 43.66 W97 14.94 3.1nm 043° from KNGP Corpus Christi, TX; 3nm 040° NGP 114.0; 15nm 131° CRP 115.5;

US East Coast
Victor N36 54.30 W75 42.76 16 nm 084° from KNTU Oceana NAS, VA; 16nm 084° NTU 116.6; 23nm 100° ORF 116.9
Gulf N31 56.90 W80 40.96 24 nm 106° from KSVN Hunter AAF, GA; 24nm 107° SVN 111.6; 29nm 122° SAV 115.95
Novembr N33 30.74 W77 36.51 34 nm 147° from KSUT Brunswick Co, NC; 58nm 118° CRE 117.6; 40nm 163° CLB 216


North Sea (grouped by proximity to each other)
Njord (NJD) N64 16.24 E07 11.99 54nm 309° from ENFA; NOTE: RIG has NDB 310
Heidrun (HEI) N65 19.53 E07 18.95 101nm 285° from ENRM; NOTE: RIG has DME HEI 115.05 and NDB 340


Snorre (SNR) N61 26.96 E02 08.49 83nm 267° from ENFL; NOTE: RIG has NDB SNR 375
Statfjord B (LF6M)N61 12.38 E01 49.72 94nm 258° from ENFL; NOTE: RIG has NDB LF6M 615
Gullfaks (GFC) N61 12.86 E02 16.33 82nm 256° from ENFL; 13nm 270° to LF6M; 15nm 347° to SNR; 46nm 162° to OBA;
NOTE: RIG has DME GFC 113.65 and NDB GFC 333
Troll A (TRL) N60 38.70 E03 43.43 ***Island only *** 68nm 215° from ENFL; NOTE: RIG has DME TRL 116.10
Oseberg A (OBA) N60 29.47 E02 49.50 91nm 226° from ENFL; NOTE: RIG has NDB OBA 353


Sleipner A (SPA) N58 22.00 E01 54.42 118nm 241° from ENHD; 134nm 136° from EGPB; NOTE: RIG has DME SPA 115.50 and NDB SPA 349
Ula (ULA) N57 06.63 E02 50.68 135nm 244° from ENLI; NOTE: RIG has NDB ULA 380
Tor (TR) N56 38.48 E03 19.53 138nm 230° from ENLI; NOTE: RIG has NDB TR 375
Donna (DON) N55 28.14 E05 07.98 113nm 253° from EKVJ; NOTE: RIG has NDB DON 355[CODE]

Edited by rhagen on Feb. 17 2007,02:13

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:04 pm
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Excellent list. Looks like I'm going to have some fun finding all of those. Cool

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Wingnut - thanks for the list! Will come in handy over the next few weeks!

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Great stuff Wingy !

Thank you for sharing !! Much appreciated !


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:25 pm
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If you like oil support work, you will love this!

FS2004 Scenery-NZ SOUTH BASIN V1.0 Polar Tiger

www.fsplanet.com/16072004.htm

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:38 pm
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so that's what that platform is out my kitchen window Smile lol
jk jk, but yeah i live near the lost bridge village area and grew up here, and while it's in FS 9, I have never known of any Oil Rig in Beaver Lake, Razz
Does Bill or someone at Microsoft know something about the area I don't?

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Hiya horseman88 and welcome to Com Central!

I would suspect "Bill" has more inside info than we do...lol
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