USHST Briefing on Wire Strikes today September 29th

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USHST Briefing on Wire Strikes today September 29th

#1 Post by G~Man » Wed Sep 29, 2021 3:03 pm

For those who may be interested, the USHST is doing a webinar on wire strikes today at 10 Pacific, 13:00 Eastern.

I am a guest speaker and will be showing a video and interview of an incident...feel free to register---it is free:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... a1OpvtG2Zg

https://ushst.org/
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Re: USHST Briefing on Wire Strikes today September 29th

#2 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Sep 29, 2021 4:20 pm

G~Man wrote:
Wed Sep 29, 2021 3:03 pm
For those who may be interested, the USHST is doing a webinar on wire strikes today at 10 Pacific, 13:00 Eastern.

I am a guest speaker and will be showing a video and interview of an incident...feel free to register---it is free:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... a1OpvtG2Zg

https://ushst.org/
Cheers, I will poke my nose in. :-bd
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#3 Post by G~Man » Wed Sep 29, 2021 4:59 pm

Starting in 2 minutes, my presentation will be about an hour in...
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#4 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Sep 29, 2021 5:03 pm

Looking forward to it.
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#5 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:02 pm

G~Man, thanks for the heads up on this one. Really worthwhile session. Is your video available online anywhere? I am glad that lady luck and your skill means that you are here to share your experience with nincompoops like me. Very thought provoking.
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#6 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:16 pm

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#7 Post by PHXPhlyer » Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:34 pm

TGG:
They said it would be up on their website.

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#8 Post by PHXPhlyer » Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:36 pm

G-Man:
If you were a cat you would have used up three of your lives. :-o :YMAPPLAUSE: ^:)^ :))

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#9 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:38 pm

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TGG:
They said it would be up on their website.

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Re: USHST Briefing on Wire Strikes today September 29th

#10 Post by G~Man » Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:49 pm

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:02 pm
G~Man, thanks for the heads up on this one. Really worthwhile session. Is your video available online anywhere? I am glad that lady luck and your skill means that you are here to share your experience with nincompoops like me. Very thought provoking.
Welcome....It will be on their website here in a few day, I will post a link when it is up--in the meantime here are some older ones: https://ushst.org/ushst-all-hands-webinars/
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If you were a cat you would have used up three of your lives. :-o :YMAPPLAUSE: ^:)^ :))
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Yes indeedy--one for each conductor I hit..... Here is what it looked like from the camera ship when we did the re-creation video.....and yes I had to hover there for about 5 minutes while the camera aircraft videoed from all angles, you can see the wires I hit, click on the image to make it bigger:
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#11 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:00 pm

Dumb question perhaps, but how effective are helicopter wire cutters in statistical terms?




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#12 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:13 pm

In the time I have been flying fixed wing aircraft from my local airfield, there have been two wire strikes on the approach to runway 03/21, both fixed wing, that have resulted in 3 deaths and one extraordinary escape, although the aircraft in the latter case, was also written off, yet, even today, the wires still don't have red balls attached to them.
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Re: USHST Briefing on Wire Strikes today September 29th

#13 Post by G~Man » Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:19 pm

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:00 pm
Dumb question perhaps, but how effective are helicopter wire cutters in statistical terms?
They work really well if the wire actually goes into the cutter. There are some accidents out there where they missed. SoCal Edison had one where the cutters took out two of the three lines but the third line missed and took down the helicopter killing both on board.
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