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Fisty
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PostPosted: 21:10 - 13 Oct 2008    Post subject: The most skillful pilot i have ever seen. Reply with quote

Eon have been doing some work on the pylons next to where I work. Today they tuned up with a helicopter. To do this.

https://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn82/mr_fisty/DSC00005.jpg

The pilot was hovering whilst dangling a basket with 2 men in while they inspected the lines. At a glance it looked like the helicopter was motionless, it barely moved except when going to a different section of cable.

There was a stiff breeze too which he had to compensate for, I certainly dont envy the guys in the basket!
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PostPosted: 21:40 - 13 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

Channel 5 are doing a documentary on the people that do this for a living. I can't remember when though.

In the advert it showed them cleaning the powerlines with water Shocked
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Eddie Hitler
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PostPosted: 22:27 - 13 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

Awesome.

Was that the view from your house or?

I would just stare at it all day. Laughing
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PostPosted: 05:16 - 14 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

*Think* it's on thursday at 9, but I can't remember. Was a trailer for it on the Gadget show yesterday.

I used to see power companies helicopters inspecting pylons a lot up until a few years ago, not with a couple of blokes in a basket, just flying all round a pylon. I likened it to my own private aerial display - very cool.
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PostPosted: 05:31 - 14 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

Remembered seeing this and being impressed Very Happy

https://au.youtube.com/watch?v=oDW3iBYya3I
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PostPosted: 08:53 - 14 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

ms51ves3 wrote:
Channel 5 are doing a documentary on the people that do this for a living. I can't remember when though.

In the advert it showed them cleaning the powerlines with water Shocked


You can touch a power line without any trouble (plenty of birds do it every day, you see hundreds sitting on them with impunity) - the problem comes when you touch the line with one hand and something else with the other, completing a circuit.
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PostPosted: 10:46 - 14 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

Eddie Hitler wrote:

Was that the view from your house or?



The clue was in the post lol.

Mr Fisty wrote:

Eon have been doing some work on the pylons next to where I work.


Don't fancy doing either for a living, bet the moneys fucking great though.
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PostPosted: 10:49 - 14 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

dmahon wrote:
ms51ves3 wrote:
Channel 5 are doing a documentary on the people that do this for a living. I can't remember when though.

In the advert it showed them cleaning the powerlines with water Shocked


You can touch a power line without any trouble (plenty of birds do it every day, you see hundreds sitting on them with impunity) - the problem comes when you touch the line with one hand and something else with the other, completing a circuit.


Its only if you touch the floor that it will hurt you. When I worked on the railway there was a 9 foot rule (Think they were 18 foot up) and if you came within 9 foot of them they could arc but I recon you would need to get a fair bit closer than that. I think they were 25,000 volts.
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PostPosted: 11:03 - 14 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

UnknownStuntman wrote:
*Think* it's on thursday at 9, but I can't remember. Was a trailer for it on the Gadget show yesterday.

Yep, Channel 5 on Thursday 9pm, "Danger Men". New series exploring the world's most hazardous jobs, beginning with the linemen who work on cables that carry 500,000 volts as they maintain America's power grids.
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PostPosted: 12:31 - 14 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've seen a US one (how stuff works or similar discovery channel thing) where the guys working on the lines are actually sitting in the 'copter. They use a special pole to 'catch' the arcing so that it doesn't arc randomly into the heli and fry it. Hardcore.
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