Saturday, April 7, 2018

Guiding Tips When Installing A Heliport

By Donna Nelson


Air transport has gained popularity in the recent days due to its efficiency and convenience. When you have your private jets the better, you can travel wherever you want within a short period and back. Also, as a community, you can decide to contribute and purchase a plane that will be helping people within the locality. Such plans can be in the form of an ambulance in case of an emergency that requires immediate attention. However, to facilitate the efficient operation of such planes, you must construct a heliport. Here are tips to help you construct one.

Draft a planned budget that will be used for the project. In the current competitive economy, people want to save any penny that comes around. Thus, make sure the contractors you are working with are charging affordable prices. Make negotiations where possible to avoid getting overcharged. This should be done before the beginning of the job.

Assess your land to ensure it is adequate for accommodating the helipad. It is not necessary to have the landing place installed on your building rooftop if you have a large land you can have it in a separate place. Also, if the land cannot accommodate the building and the helipad you can go ahead to have it on your rooftop. This is a risky decision, and thus you must ensure the engineers doing so are experts through training.

The lighting system to be used for this area should also be factored in. The pilot requires enough light to be able to land without any challenges. Also, lights are important to enhance the security of this place to avoid any cases of unwanted guests. Thus, you should ensure you are accessible to great power sources such as electricity.

The servicing cost of this field is also a vital consideration to be made. It is obvious that after a long period the helipad may start wearing out and can be harmful to your helicopters. Therefore make sure this place is always in the right condition to avoid inconveniences. Find experts who will be doing this job regularly. The experts should be charging affordable amounts.

The technicians to do the construction of this landing place should be experts. Some quacks will misguide you in case they notice you are misinformed. Thus, you must be keen with the certification of these engineers to ensure your work will be carried out as per your expectations. Therefore, you must interview to vet out these experts.

There are documents that you need to present to the relevant authorities for them to allow you proceed with this project. This is set to ensure your helipad does not interfere with normal operations of your neighbors. More so, it should meet the standards to avoid any incidence of an accident due to the poorly constructed helipad.

Lastly, you must check the sizes of the jet you intend to buy and the number of people they can accommodate. Bigger jets may not be appropriate to land on rooftops; such planes require a helipad installed at the ground. This is to avoid interfering with the apartment which can be fatal in case the building goes down.




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