"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , Rod Speed
scribeth thus


"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , Harry Bloomfield
scribeth thus
Jethro_uk has brought this to us :
Could they not have flown the helicopter higher, and trailed the rope
to
be moved into position by people on the ground, and then the rescue
worker goes down that ?

Rescuers could not initially get to him from the ground up, because the
top section ladder was adrift from the chimney. It doesn't explain why
rescuers could not have been lowered down to the chimney top, from the
helicopter.


Well they do this sort of with broadcast aerials in remote locations inc
the UK a few years ago, but the down draft is quite a bit, been under a
helicopter around a 100 feet or so and its quite a wind. However if that
man was experienced in "aerial" rescue operations, had a safety harness
on then possible but this guy just climbed up there was mentally ill so
it would have been very risky indeed for him.

Heres a vid of what they do do with helicopters and the down draft is
there but these men are well experienced in this sort of operation but
for matey the other day different matter poor sod!..



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL1AmVxYh1s

Fark. Wondered how they get it on the bolt holes,, obvious when you think
of
it.


That will have been pre-assembled on the ground before they find that
the holes don't line up at a 1000 feet!.

Sure, I didn’t mean that, I meant getting the aerial onto
the thing at the top of the tower rotated at the right
angle so the holes line up. Not trivial to do that with
a 1 ton aerial on the end of that long line to the chopper.

Wonder how often it works as easily as that one did.

That stick the blokes waving around also discharges the
static charge that builds up on the chopper on hot dry days!

Sure,