Helipad / Heliport Inspection Logger

Field guide: Helipad / Heliport Inspection Logger

A hospital helipad is aviation infrastructure maintained by facilities staff — and the gap between those worlds is where findings hide. Air ambulance crews arrive at night, in weather, to a pad they trust was checked: perimeter lights all burning, the wind cone lit and free, the TLOF swept of the FOD that a rotor wash will weaponize, and the approach paths still matching the obstruction survey. This logger gives facilities teams the aviation checklist in plain language, with crew-advisory and restriction classes that map to what gets phoned to the EMS operators.

Obstruction creep is the long-game finding: the new HVAC unit, the grown-out tree line, the crane two blocks over — each can quietly violate the surveyed approach surfaces. Logging 'new penetration suspected' with a photo and GPS starts the survey conversation before a crew discovers it at 2 a.m. Rooftop pads add their own items — safety nets, membrane condition, and the access-control that keeps the public off an active TLOF.

Field tips

• Walk the pad as a final-approach pilot sees it: at night, lights matter in patterns — one dark quadrant misleads worse than three random outages.
• Rotor wash finds what brooms miss: secure or remove anything under ~2 kg within the shoulder, including the maintenance bucket.
• Photograph the skyline from pad center quarterly along approach headings; comparing frames is the cheapest obstruction survey there is.

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