Smoke and mirrors. How should pilots cope with commercial presures?
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Had mine (power line experience) awhile back . Made me leave my instructing/powerline job in the the flying motorcycle. My boss at the time had me flying powerlines in a r22. Not the smartest thing to be doing. was flying along wiht the lineman looking at insulators and the wind did a 180 and i started to settle. came about that close to eating it , was able to turn it into the wind away form the line, scared to death that the t/r was going to strike or get hung up. Never been so white in my life.
Then I went to reading gauges in a 61 yanking lumber. dont know which was safer. Guess it beats Nigeria, huh?
RB
Had mine (power line experience) awhile back . Made me leave my instructing/powerline job in the the flying motorcycle. My boss at the time had me flying powerlines in a r22. Not the smartest thing to be doing. was flying along wiht the lineman looking at insulators and the wind did a 180 and i started to settle. came about that close to eating it , was able to turn it into the wind away form the line, scared to death that the t/r was going to strike or get hung up. Never been so white in my life.
Then I went to reading gauges in a 61 yanking lumber. dont know which was safer. Guess it beats Nigeria, huh?
RB
That particular fright of a lifetime....wish it was the only one of that intensity....was in mid-September 1981.....at about the 5,000 hour level...three ATP's under my belt...two helicopter and one fixed wing....and a stint in Uncle Sam's vagabond air circus.
