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Helicopters Offshore

Project Overview

My partner's father works for an offshore helicopter company who delivers passengers to and from oil rigs out in Angola. In 2014 he came to me with the idea of creating a website to help out with scheduling pilots for the company he works for. What started out as a table with a few drop downs, turned into the massive project that it is today. With over 200 users, Helicopter Offshore not only allows for easy scheduling, but allows for easy and detailed logbooking, test validity tracking, internal messaging and more.

The Challenge

Create an expandable, well integrated system to meet the company's needs.

  • Dynamic code to allow for easy changes
  • Taking in company's feed back and turning it into implementations
  • Complete project management
  • Create a web application while developing my skills

The Strategy

  • Create well rounded code following best practices.
  • Using the newest and best technologies to create an innovative system
  • Upgrade and rework code base as my skillset develops
  • Recognize other technologies on the market and analyze their benefits and downfalls, integrating similar positive aspects and finding alternatives/solutions to the negative

Conclusion

Although there are quite a few parts that I would redo a different way if I had the time, Helicopters Offshore is a powerful web applications. There's still a large list of features that will be added in the near future. I'm currently working on integrating flight tracking data into the site to create a complete hub for all the information needed to keep track of the fleet.

Check out the project here - www.helicopters-offshore.com