USHST Briefing on Wire Strikes today September 29th
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USHST Briefing on Wire Strikes today September 29th
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/
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
Cheers, I will poke my nose in.G~Man wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 3:03 pmFor 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/
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
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To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
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Your destination remains
Elusive."
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Re: USHST Briefing on Wire Strikes today September 29th
Starting in 2 minutes, my presentation will be about an hour in...
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Re: USHST Briefing on Wire Strikes today September 29th
Looking forward to it.
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Re: USHST Briefing on Wire Strikes today September 29th
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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Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
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Your destination remains
Elusive."
Re: USHST Briefing on Wire Strikes today September 29th
TGG:
They said it would be up on their website.
PP
They said it would be up on their website.
PP
Re: USHST Briefing on Wire Strikes today September 29th
G-Man:
If you were a cat you would have used up three of your lives.
PP
If you were a cat you would have used up three of your lives.
PP
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Your destination remains
Elusive."
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Re: USHST Briefing on Wire Strikes today September 29th
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/TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:02 pmG~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.
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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Re: USHST Briefing on Wire Strikes today September 29th
Dumb question perhaps, but how effective are helicopter wire cutters in statistical terms?
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Re: USHST Briefing on Wire Strikes today September 29th
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
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.TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:00 pmDumb question perhaps, but how effective are helicopter wire cutters in statistical terms?
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