Although i grew up on a farm, my day job is a lineman. The company I work for has a few (5?) Eurocopter Astars. There's a platform developed in-house to exit the helicopter on the top of a transmission line tower. We call it the Air Stair. The work location I'm currently at will give me the opportunity to do this in the following years, can't wait.

What kind of FLIR is that?

lesuther wrote:What kind of FLIR is that?

Don't know all too much about it. It's used to find shorted strings of insulators on an energized line, which will turn hot.

back when I was into heli-logging, they'd drop us off on a stump like that (BIG stumps on the coast). Slow & gentle egress & loading on, pilot would hold 'er steady. Never had to walk over the fell & bucked!