What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power Lines (2017) [video]

Re:What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power... by foobarian on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @11:04PM (#17815949)

I wonder why they don't instead suspend the line worker something like 50 feet below the helicopter to give themselves more margin for error. I guess the current method must be reliable enough that they don't bother.

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Re:What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power... by ryanmarsh on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @11:53PM (#17816160)

Then you’d have two problems. There’s more wind up there than on the ground. The lineman would get blown around. Imagine a yo-yo tied to a drone hovering above the top of a tall tree. Now try to hold the yo-yo perfectly on a leaf.

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Re:What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power... by kiallmacinnes on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @06:53AM (#17817752)

That would mean a rope or similar, so the helicopter can actually take off.. that's not going to be stable!

At the end of the day, any mistake at 5 foot or 50 foot away is likely to be fatal!

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Re:What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power... by taneq on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @11:07PM (#17815965)

Maybe to give the pilot a better view?

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