Fancy Copter Flying

Z06Nut

These guys must get paid $$$ to do this.

I took some photos today of these guys pulling in new power lines. :bow




Check out the rest of the photos @ http://z06nut.smugmug.com/gallery/5314945_vfwBT#324474330_UmFdu

Bayer-Z28

Oh wow! Took me a second to realize..

VERY dangerous job, I'd imagine..

fire1035

Are they stringing lines? If so I caught a show on this on Discovery or soemthing like that. Apparently it is safer than the traditional running of lines because they are not grounded while working with the high voltage stuff.

Z06Nut

fire1035 wrote:

Are they stringing lines? If so I caught a show on this on Discovery or soemthing like that. Apparently it is safer than the traditional running of lines because they are not grounded while working with the high voltage stuff.

They are pulling in the ropes to pull the line in. This is a new service so it's dead.

black mamba

I can guarantee you that there is nothing safe about this kind of flying. I met three young guys last year that worked as a team, doing this kind of work all over the South. They do earn huge sums of money, but their operational expenses are enornmous and their insurance bill for the year would cause you to faint. They had recently lost two good friends that were doing the same kind of flying. One of the three was seriously considering leaving the business....despite the high pay.