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B2B Helicopter Mission Request Checklist
Twelve sections covering everything a licensed helicopter operator needs before it can assess and quote a business mission: route and exact location, operating window, passengers and weights, equipment and cargo, rotations, landing-site information, remote or offshore requirements, ground transport, permits, weather and daylight, urgency and company contacts.
The full checklist is on this page. The downloadable file is released after the short form, so a coordinator can review the mission alongside it.
1. Route and exact location
- Departure point: airport, heliport, base or site name.
- Destination: coordinates where possible, or the asset name and its owner/operator.
- Intermediate stops, in the order required.
- Who controls each point on the ground, and whether they already know about the flight.
2. Date and operating window
- Requested date, or the window if the date is not fixed yet.
- Earliest departure and latest acceptable arrival.
- Whether the schedule is fixed by an external deadline (turnaround, acceptance test, vessel movement, event).
- Usable daylight at the destination on that date.
3. Passenger details
- Number of people per sortie, outbound and inbound.
- Realistic dressed weights, including PPE, survival suits and winter kit.
- Whether anyone requires offshore survival, hoist or medical certification — and whether those certificates are current.
- Names and roles only where the site or the operator requires a manifest.
4. Baggage and equipment
- Baggage and tooling weight per person, counted separately from cargo.
- Cargo weight and dimensions — some loads will not pass a cabin door regardless of mass.
- Anything battery-powered, pressurised, flammable or chemical, for a dangerous-goods assessment by the operator.
- External-load requirement: rigged weight, sling configuration and any long-line need.
5. Number of rotations
- How many people and how much equipment must move in total.
- Expected sector time between the two points.
- How many rotations are needed, and whether they must fit one day or spread over several.
- Whether the aircraft returns to base between rotations or stays on site.
6. Landing-site information
- Landing-point status: approved deck, prepared pad, unprepared ground, or hoist-only.
- Surface, slope, obstacles, wires and approach paths, if known.
- Written acceptance from whoever controls the point — this is what makes a site usable, not a cleared area.
- Fuel availability on site, and where refuelling would otherwise happen.
7. Remote or offshore requirements
- Environment: platform, vessel, turbine, remote onshore site, mountain or island.
- Site induction requirements for the crew, and the on-site point of contact.
- Communications available at the site.
- Medevac or emergency-response arrangements in place for the operating period.
8. Ground transportation
- Transfers required at each end, and for how many people.
- Whether the departure point is reachable by road for everyone on the manifest.
- Where equipment is stored before and after the flight.
- Alternative ground plan if the flight cannot operate that day.
9. Required permits
- Landing permission at each point, and who applies for it.
- Cross-border overflight and landing permits, customs and immigration.
- Permissions for built-up areas, controlled airspace, protected zones or night operations.
- Certification, insurance and HSE-audit requirements imposed by your own company.
10. Weather and daylight considerations
- Weather limits that would stop the mission — wind, visibility, sea state, icing.
- Expected weather-loss days across the operating period, and contingency rotations.
- Whether the mission is day-only or requires night capability.
- Fallback order of sites so the day degrades gracefully instead of collapsing.
11. Urgency
- What the flight prevents: lost production, idle crane hire, standby crews, penalty clauses.
- The deadline that cannot move, and what happens if it does.
- Whether standby or a positioned aircraft is required.
- Approval route inside your organisation, so the mission is not stopped by sign-off.
12. Company contact details
- Company name, and the legal entity that would contract the flight.
- Mission owner: name, role, business email, phone or WhatsApp with country code.
- Site or operations contact for the day of the flight.
- Procurement or finance contact, where a purchase order or framework applies.
What happens after you submit
- A SkyMatch coordinator reads the mission and comes back with the gaps that block an operator review.
- We identify independent licensed operators that may be able to assess the mission.
- The mission brief goes out for assessment; aircraft, availability, permissions and limits are theirs to confirm.
- You receive the quotation options that come back, with the conditions attached to each.
- Nothing is booked, promised or priced until an operator confirms, and you and the operator are never connected automatically.
Download the checklist
Tell us who the mission is for. A coordinator reviews the request; nothing is confirmed and no operator is contacted on your behalf until the mission has been reviewed.
SkyMatch Group is an independent helicopter broker and coordination platform and does not operate aircraft. Aircraft, availability, pricing, weather limits and landing permissions are confirmed by licensed operators and by whoever controls the landing point. Every request is reviewed by a person, and buyers and operators are never connected automatically.