Wirestrike involving known wires: A manageable aerial agriculture hazard
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2014
- You have finished the main spray runs and are about to conduct a clean up run.
Power lines crisscross the paddock. You know where they are, and have been actively avoiding them all day.
But the clean up follows a different path.
Your focus is on the wire to your left, one that wasn't such a concern on earlier runs.
It looks different from this angle -- a hazard, but easily managed.
Except you forget about the wire on the diagonal.
You suddenly see it approaching and immediately pull up.
Your aircraft starts to respond but it's too late.
Every year many aerial agriculture pilots hit power lines while flying.
Although pilots often walk away with only a damaged aircraft, tragically, some are not so lucky.
But these accidents are avoidable.
I've flying all my life, crop dusting, since I was a kid.
I flew the first time when I was 10 years old,on my friends father's plane.
I've had a million close calls, but never touched anything yet.
Must have a really fast flying guardian angel.
Thank you,Lord.
Wishing you a good flight, to all you crop dusters, from Mexico to the world.
Would you recommend the industry to a 22 year old?
I wrecked a Pawnee 150 48 years ago after the left wingtip snagged a telephone wire. The plane went over the low telephone poles. I quick dumped the load, pulled the stick back, and thought, "this is it.": Translated...you're going to die. The ground came up fast. The nose and right wingtip hit first, and then the plane cartwheels three times, according to what the witnesses had to say. I was sprayed with gasoline when the fiberglass fuel tank shattered like an eggshell. However, I lucked out. Everything up to the firewall had been torn off at the first impact. When all of the motion stopped, I felt myself, and said out loud, "Damn, I'm still alive!" I was very young at the time, and the instruction I had been given was far from adequate. It was, shall I say...a learning experience.
Remember the day, it was like my 4th day flying solo,I took my girlfriend and my niece for a ride on the school 172,I didn't know it was going to act totally different, cause the balance weight or whatever.
I was on taking off on this dirt road, and there was a little treck at like 200 mts , but since I had taken off there a few times before with someone else on the plane, well, one more what difference could it make,I thought.
Well,it made a big difference,it wouldn't gain speed.
I just when full flaps, cause I always leave them at cero, until getting airborne,and barely went over the creack and then I see the power wires just in front of me, so I had to go underneath them.
The girls never thought nothing of it.Never new I almost killed them.
With permission from the power co. , of course and none have objected so far. We paint the the poles surrounding and
in the field, starting from 6ft. to 12 ft. with international orange day glow paint also. It helps as a google earth reminder
also if you've not sprayed that area before !
No wire cutters or arresting cable for protection.
narrator makes it sound easy. text book geek.
I study cognitive science at the university of Gothenburg.. you state that human memory is limited to 4 items(chunks), in fact it has been proven that is is somewhere around 7(+/- 2).
4 items, while continuously monitoring an aircraft, running through checklists, and building a mental picture of where you have already sprayed. The number is specific towards the operations they are performing.
The list of things a pilot has to remember is far longer than 5-9 items. Especially down low in the weeds. There could be powerlines on all sides of a field, where you started and stopped you last run mist be remembered, along with monitoring speed and wind direction and ten other items.
ive hit a thousand things ahahaha
youre insane if you think they are avoidable... we use wire cutters on our planes
What is that?
@@ViviendoOntario sharp hardened steel edges on landing gear and the windshield supports so you can just fly through wires like they aren't even there. Well, the prop takes the damage. Medivac helicopters use them extensively.