Helicopter Operations from Ships other Than Aircraft Carriers

Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations...

(HOSTAC) is a military international standardization

Standardization

Standardization is the process of developing and implementing technical standards.The goals of standardization can be to help with independence of single suppliers , compatibility, interoperability, safety, repeatability, or quality....

 program made up of 4 regional HOSTAC Conferences/Working Groups. These regional groups include the NATO HOSTAC, SIAN HOSTAC, Pacific HOSTAC and Middle East HOSTAC. The primary focus of this international forum is generate the appropriate standards (Standardization Agreements - STANAGs) and maintain up-to-date national information in order to successfully and safely conduct cross-deck helicopter

Helicopter

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by one or more engine-driven rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forwards, backwards, and laterally...

operations between navies.

The first combine "Global" HOSTAC conference was held in April 2008 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA and included the participation by 34 nations.

The HOSTAC publications, APP 2(F)/MPP 2(F) Volume I, Volume II and Volume II Pocket Guide, are part of the Multinational Publications Electronic Library (MPEL).