CHOPPERS APP | North Sea Offshore Helicopter Tracker

Built for the trip out, the standby, and the trip home. Flight decisions stay with your operator and official notices.

What It Does

Four jobs, done without noise.

Track offshore flights

See airborne helicopters, operator routes, offshore destinations and position confidence in one North Sea map view.

OpenSky, schedules and dead reckoning where live coverage drops away.

Read sea and sky

Wind, gust, wave, swell, visibility and satellite cloud weather views are built for quick offshore checks.

Open-Meteo, MET Norway and EUMETSAT credited in app.

Follow the rotation

Save your platform and operator, watch outbound or inbound flights, and use terminal guidance around Aberdeen.

PWA install, push-ready workflow, no account required.

Build a D Brief

Search your platform, rig or airport and pull the weather readout into a clean daily planning view.

12h, 48h and 7 day marine forecast modes.

Decision Language

Ready, caution, hold.

Ready Good travelling conditions.

Caution Check operator updates before travel.

Hold Weather likely to disrupt movement.

D Brief

Your offshore weather brief, cleaned up.

Pick a platform, rig or Aberdeen airport and CHOPPERS turns the marine forecast into a worker-friendly readout: Hs, max Hs, wind, gust, swell, temperature and visibility without digging through separate sites.

Platform, rig and ABZ search Numbers or graph view 12h, 48h and 7 day ranges Metric toggles and saved units

D BRIEF Aberdeen / ABZ

2.4mHs

17ktWind

29ktGust

PartlyClouds

12h 48h 7d

Terminal Guidance

GET TO THE CHOPPER!

Interactive heliport guidance gets you to the right operator terminal before check-in. Pick the airport, choose the heliport pin, open directions in Google Maps, and check the train or bus options that get you to ABZ with time to spare.

Aberdeen operator terminals Google Maps handoff Train and bus travel prompts

CHOPPERS app showing Aberdeen heliport terminal map pins

Aircraft

The machines moving crews offshore.

Quick visual recognition for the aircraft types and operators offshore workers see around Aberdeen and the North Sea.

CHC H175 offshore helicopter — **CHC H175** North Sea heavy lift rotation workhorse.

Bristow Sikorsky S-92 offshore helicopter — **Bristow S-92** Longer-range offshore crew transfer.

NHV H175 offshore helicopter — **NHV H175** Modern super-medium offshore operations.

CHC Sikorsky S-92 offshore helicopter — **CHC S-92** Familiar North Sea passenger capacity.

NHV AW139 offshore helicopter — **NHV AW139** Medium twin for shorter-sector work.

OHS Airbus H175 offshore helicopter — **OHS H175** Operator recognition for Aberdeen offshore services.

Weather Layers

See what can change the trip.

CHOPPERS app wind layer over the North Sea map — Wind flow over the live North Sea operating picture.

CHOPPERS app satellite clouds layer over the North Sea map — Satellite clouds with flow and offshore traffic context.

CHOPPERS app wave height layer over the North Sea map — Wave height with compact sea-state legend.

Wind / GustCan affect departure, approach and deck operations.

Sea State / SwellCan affect offshore rescue cover and installation movements.

VisibilityFog, haar, low cloud and snow showers can change quickly.

Lightning / Winter CloudsSerious warning conditions, especially around northern routes and Shetland.

Install

Add it to your home screen. Use it between trips.

CHOPPERS is a Progressive Web App for the flight day, and Explore gives offshore workers quick links for the stuff they actually buy, book and sort when the wages land.

iPhone

Open in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.

Android

Open in Chrome and use the install prompt or browser menu.

Desktop

Use in browser or install through Chrome and Edge.

Explore

Spend your earnings without hunting around.

Tech, cars, insurance and travel links can sit inside CHOPPERS as a useful worker-facing directory.

Currys Overclockers UK amazon.co.uk AO Auto Trader Halfords Qdos Staysure

Curated outbound links. Company names are shown for user recognition and do not imply sponsorship.

Energy News

Industry Insights from Global Energy Network.

Quick routes into Global Energy Network for offshore, oil and gas, energy transition and North Sea industry updates.

Industry updates, news and magazine features from Global Energy Network.

News Global Energy Network Latest energy industry news Oil, gas, offshore and energy transition stories from across the sector. Open source -> Europe Global Energy Network Europe and North Sea updates Regional project, operator, supply chain and offshore market stories relevant to UKCS workers. Open source -> Magazine Global Energy Network Energy magazine features Longer reads, interviews and sector insight from Global Energy Network. Open source -> Events Global Energy Network Energy events calendar Upcoming industry events, networking dates and energy gatherings. Open source ->

Data Sources

Public, open and credited sources.

Operator Thanks

Bristow, CHC Helicopter, NHV and OHS

With thanks for the public schedule and status information that helps CHOPPERS present a clearer offshore travel picture for workers.

CHOPPERS is independent and unofficial. Always follow your employer, heliport, check-in desk and operator notices.

Open-Meteo weather and marine grid MET Norway secondary weather checks EUMETSAT satellite cloud imagery OpenSky Network community ADS-B positions Esri satellite base map Natural Earth coastline and land geometry

Offshore owners and operators Thanks to the companies, licence holders and installation teams whose public field, platform and infrastructure information helps CHOPPERS orient workers around the North Sea.

Built on Overclockers UK hardware The Seed build is an Overclockers Pinnacle workstation used for CHOPPERS APP development, AI-assisted engineering, map, weather and interface testing. Overclockers UK

Unofficial information tool. CHOPPERS APP may be delayed, incomplete or inaccurate. Always confirm flight details, weather and operational status with your operator, airport and official notices before travelling.