Nice vid Mr Rasmussen The yellow thing is called a Come-along. the littelt skinny hug he first put on is to keep the curent the same betwine the helicopter and the wire. The rotor blade create friktion in the air. So if that is not on he can get saped. like rubbing a balloon so you your hair stand up. But with a mutch bigger volt diffrentce. The big wire are so the curent are the same betwine the wire when he remove the isolater. its all about having the same volt all the way around. And yeah its the 0 wire on top but its isolated so you dont get choked if you tuch the mast on the ground.
The clamp he's attaching to the cable is called a come along in the UK, it allows you to put tension on the line to take the slack out or for dismantling work or as in this case changing the insulators where you have to create some slack line first. The cable joining the two cables is a jumper and the isolators prevent the power from making contact with the tower and shorting out. This tower would be called a section tower as it has a jumper between and others with the cables hanging below are intermediates and hang from the insulators
Now we're talking!!! 😃 She's an MD500E. No hydraulics on 500, very organic. Anti-clockwise rotation, so left skid low. Have on one occasion seen them take a P2 so he can fly it from right seat when it better suited wind & powerline alignment. Can I ask what camera & helmet mounting you use please???
@@harezy I need to find a way to mount my camera on my Alpha Series lid so that it doesn't clatter the canopy every time I duck out...! 😖 I'll stick to getting footage from the 500... UDW will knock me out of the park with the 350s! (Both footage and flying!) 😃
The 500 is super nice, not many of them in Norway unfortunately. But I've seen Morten P in HeliTrack been doing a lot of line inspection in my area with the 520 NOTAR, which is rare as well. Pretty awesome footage btw :)
These pilots and linemen have to be the most skilled on the planet. I've seen them working up close and personal from directly below a tower. The stillness of the chopper is mind blowing. This perspective was fantastic, i felt like I was right there. Thanks
How much talented must someone be to hold the helicopter so steady and for so long? I mean I can hardly hold the Huey in hover for 2-3 minutes in DCS. I really admire helicopter pilots doing this kind of job and also the sling pilots :)
The MD-500 is the best one and a good friend of mine does this type of work and the most important is holding a performance hovering with your head out of the cockpit and watching your controls
awesome helicopter, thought the cowansim 500e would be great for xplane but you cant really simulate stuff like that for now saldy. but great video and great job, he is doing! would love to see more videos of him
Here’s some US lineman lingo for all the wrongly identified stuff from a Us power line pilot. The top wire is in fact a ground wire. The cup is called an insulator bell. Chain thing is a 2 1/2 ton chain hoist. The holding device is called a grip or wire grip. The tan suit the lineman wears is a Fairaday suit which is nomex and steel mesh to protect from static electric charge. The MD-500E is a non hydraulic controls machine. Rolls-Royce C-20B orR engine
Powerline flying isn’t for everyone because if you’re distracted by something on your mind and not thinking the way you should well it’s better to not fly at all
That's an E model. I flew a 500 C model for tuna boats. There are many videos of other pilots on here. If you search tuna boat helicopter you'll find plenty. The D and E models also do not have hydraulics. The trim on the cyclic control some actuators that move the cyclic. It takes a lot of work to move the cyclic around so you use the trim to do it for you.
3:27 that’s a chain hoist , the top wire is referred to a static wire. The white thing in an insulator. That wires below it are known as conductors which here are probably energized is why they do it with a helicopter so you don’t have to get close with a truck to change it. The bond wire that the lineman moves keeps the helicopter at the same potential as the wire. It will shock you pretty good if you touch the wire without the bond. The poles here are probably 90-125ft tall. I’m a Journeyman Lineman and do helicopter work sometimes. If you have any questions let me know and I’ll try to awnser them.
This reminds me of the guy I saw going through the ORT toll @ 65mph. He was driving with his knee, eating a bowl of cereal and playing what looked like a game on his cell phone. He looked over at me and did nothing but smile and wink, and sped up.
1. This is cool af. 2. Asking questions to provide better commentary would’ve been sweet (as you said:) 3. Commentary could include Providing facts about the 500, and that’s a great way to mix up what you’re talking about. Kind of peppering them in here and there. 4. Dude keep going! For those of us that can’t make our own CZcams videos! Great job. Get those facts. Explain things to the people who don’t fly and maybe who might be living elsewhere in the world.
Yes. They seem to have offset pedals. I saw another clip and the checklist requires "pedals neutral" and then the pilot explains that means "right pedal 1 inch forward". ( with anticlockwise rotation of the rotor ). When will we see the next clip? You did not post for a long time. Thanks!
That helidriver's a pro for sure, but I was thinking more of the line worker sitting there doing his thing, and at the same time contending with that fourblade downwash! Respect where respect's due! . . . 👍 (Edit: When visiting Helitrans @TRD/Vaernes some years back, they had a beautiful Maroon Red, MD 369/500 E at their base.)
Great video!👍🏻 Would love to hear the tech explain what he's doing.... Is the pilot fighting that cyclic a lot? How come there's so much movement when the helicopter is hovering? It doesn't appear to be very windy at the location.
No hydraulics in the MD-500. It's all done with an electric trim (the coolie hat switch on the cyclic), thus there'S much more feedback from the main rotor back into the controls. Still awesome (and precise!) to fly
I noticed he had quite a bit of right pedal in on the ground but then I noticed he had the pedals staggered, 3rd hole on the left and 4th hole on the right? I wonder if this is for comfort being in a hover all the time because his feet were aligned most of the time, but due the pedal adjustment he has left pedal in for the hover
Precisely for that reason, requires lot of left pedal for this kind of work (high power demand) and stretching your leg the whole time gets kinda old (and rather imprecise) very fast
Oh man, I love this. These type of videos are really making me think about getting into a helicopter career
Nice vid Mr Rasmussen
The yellow thing is called a Come-along. the littelt skinny hug he first put on is to keep the
curent the same betwine the helicopter and the wire. The rotor blade create friktion in the air. So if that is not on he can get saped. like rubbing a balloon so you your hair stand up. But with a mutch bigger volt diffrentce.
The big wire are so the curent are the same betwine the wire when he remove the isolater.
its all about having the same volt all the way around. And yeah its the 0 wire on top but its isolated so you dont get choked if you tuch the mast on the ground.
Awesome footage. Thank you very much. The pilot is so precise. He even relaxes his feet a little during the hover.
The chain contraption is called a wire strainer. They use them for farming as well for fences. Cool video.
Thank you! I was looking for it but couldn't find it 😁👍
Chain hoist, we don’t use wire strainers for powerlines simply because we need a lot more tension than what strainers provide.
@@keithstonebusch1473 chain hoists are for pussys. I use the skid to lift the shield wire so the lineman can pull the insulator.
@@keithstonebusch1473 nice
The clamp he's attaching to the cable is called a come along in the UK, it allows you to put tension on the line to take the slack out or for dismantling work or as in this case changing the insulators where you have to create some slack line first. The cable joining the two cables is a jumper and the isolators prevent the power from making contact with the tower and shorting out. This tower would be called a section tower as it has a jumper between and others with the cables hanging below are intermediates and hang from the insulators
You are sure 1 he'll of a pilot. So calm now and collected. Well done...
this is not me but my friend. and yes he is:)
MD500 ! I also dream to one day be able to fly one ! Great footage like always and really interesting commentaries ! Keep up the good work !
Thank you very much :) :)
More of this guy please! Adds another level to your channel and shows another line of work!
Absolutely 👍
This is the type of video that just gets you grinning cheek to cheek right away.
Now we're talking!!! 😃
She's an MD500E. No hydraulics on 500, very organic. Anti-clockwise rotation, so left skid low. Have on one occasion seen them take a P2 so he can fly it from right seat when it better suited wind & powerline alignment.
Can I ask what camera & helmet mounting you use please???
Thanks :) it's a gopro on a custom 3d printed mount that's stuck to the helmet via a gopro sticky mount
MD530FF if you want to be technical.
@@keithstonebusch1473 Good spot Keith - I completely forgot about those!!! (Don't see many over here!) 😖
@@rotorhead5006 Does this mean we might get to see some new awsome footage 🙏🙏😬😬
@@harezy I need to find a way to mount my camera on my Alpha Series lid so that it doesn't clatter the canopy every time I duck out...! 😖
I'll stick to getting footage from the 500... UDW will knock me out of the park with the 350s! (Both footage and flying!) 😃
The 500 is super nice, not many of them in Norway unfortunately. But I've seen Morten P in HeliTrack been doing a lot of line inspection in my area with the 520 NOTAR, which is rare as well. Pretty awesome footage btw :)
Yeah thats true. guess he flies a little bit when he's not playing guitar xD
@@UpsideDownWash Haha, I guess ;)
These pilots and linemen have to be the most skilled on the planet. I've seen them working up close and personal from directly below a tower. The stillness of the chopper is mind blowing. This perspective was fantastic, i felt like I was right there. Thanks
Dude this is very cool.
Yes dude, it is👌
How much talented must someone be to hold the helicopter so steady and for so long? I mean I can hardly hold the Huey in hover for 2-3 minutes in DCS. I really admire helicopter pilots doing this kind of job and also the sling pilots :)
Thousands of hours at least, and that’s just to get insured.
Definitely one of my favourite helicopters, amazing machine
That's crazy how you hover close to the powerline, the tail rotor OMG !
The MD-500 is the best one and a good friend of mine does this type of work and the most important is holding a performance hovering with your head out of the cockpit and watching your controls
Wow, super impressive
awesome video, correct! The MD500 all trims of it come without hydraulics. super super stable bird.
This is such a good video. Your dialog is great.
Thanks man☺️
Pilot that Filmed this on His Go Pro and the Lineman out on the Skid Platform doing the work were Amazing to watch!
Absolutely superb and skilled flying, best regards to you and everyone involved, kind regards Mark from Billericay in the U.K. 🇬🇧 😃👍
awesome helicopter, thought the cowansim 500e would be great for xplane but you cant really simulate stuff like that for now saldy. but great video and great job, he is doing! would love to see more videos of him
For another MD like this, you should try MilViz MD530F!!
A greater thrill for the spectators than for the working ones 👍
Here’s some US lineman lingo for all the wrongly identified stuff from a Us power line pilot.
The top wire is in fact a ground wire. The cup is called an insulator bell. Chain thing is a 2 1/2 ton chain hoist. The holding device is called a grip or wire grip. The tan suit the lineman wears is a Fairaday suit which is nomex and steel mesh to protect from static electric charge.
The MD-500E is a non hydraulic controls machine. Rolls-Royce C-20B orR engine
man that looks like a scary job
gotta have 200% faith in your pilot
watching him hover next to that live wire made my breathing shallow
wow .. that's some pretty amazing control and handeling
Watch his left foot working those pedals!👍🏻
that's awesome! what a skilled pilot!
Yup, 👍
Powerline flying isn’t for everyone because if you’re distracted by something on your mind and not thinking the way you should well it’s better to not fly at all
Look at the traffic controller holding the stop sign on the road 😂😂😂 he legit can’t stop staring up at the Heli and the linesman 😂😂👏🏻
That's an E model. I flew a 500 C model for tuna boats. There are many videos of other pilots on here. If you search tuna boat helicopter you'll find plenty. The D and E models also do not have hydraulics. The trim on the cyclic control some actuators that move the cyclic. It takes a lot of work to move the cyclic around so you use the trim to do it for you.
530FF if you want to be technical
3:27 that’s a chain hoist , the top wire is referred to a static wire. The white thing in an insulator. That wires below it are known as conductors which here are probably energized is why they do it with a helicopter so you don’t have to get close with a truck to change it. The bond wire that the lineman moves keeps the helicopter at the same potential as the wire. It will shock you pretty good if you touch the wire without the bond. The poles here are probably 90-125ft tall. I’m a Journeyman Lineman and do helicopter work sometimes. If you have any questions let me know and I’ll try to awnser them.
thanks man!
@@UpsideDownWash thank you , mad respect for these pilots.
This reminds me of the guy I saw going through the ORT toll @ 65mph. He was driving with his knee, eating a bowl of cereal and playing what looked like a game on his cell phone. He looked over at me and did nothing but smile and wink, and sped up.
Awesome keep the footage coming!
just amazing video thanks !!! again again
MD500 is a great for line work also one of my favorite helicopters
1. This is cool af.
2. Asking questions to provide better commentary would’ve been sweet (as you said:)
3. Commentary could include Providing facts about the 500, and that’s a great way to mix up what you’re talking about. Kind of peppering them in here and there.
4. Dude keep going! For those of us that can’t make our own CZcams videos!
Great job. Get those facts. Explain things to the people who don’t fly and maybe who might be living elsewhere in the world.
Very nice footage. This type of work is more common here in the United States.
Cool view point.
He appears to use right pedal when hovering so it's also probably right skid low and the main rotor turning clockwise not anti-clockwise.
I think its the opposite... But his pedals are off set
Yes. They seem to have offset pedals. I saw another clip and the checklist requires "pedals neutral" and then the pilot explains that means "right pedal 1 inch forward". ( with anticlockwise rotation of the rotor ).
When will we see the next clip? You did not post for a long time. Thanks!
That helidriver's a pro for sure, but I was thinking more of the line worker sitting there doing his thing, and at the same time contending with that fourblade downwash!
Respect where respect's due! . . . 👍
(Edit: When visiting Helitrans @TRD/Vaernes some years back, they had a beautiful Maroon Red, MD 369/500 E at their base.)
great video and commentary, really would like if there are jobs like this in Croatia, maybe one day
Excelente.
3:25 it’s called a “come-along”
That looks super scary, cool but you have to have huge guts to be pulling that operation off. 1 stupid move on either of you and it's all over.
Any chance to get more footage from that guy? 🙂
Hehe im on him :) hopefully some this season👍☺️
He must be burning alot off jet A there some skill there hey 😜
Great video!👍🏻
Would love to hear the tech explain what he's doing....
Is the pilot fighting that cyclic a lot? How come there's so much movement when the helicopter is hovering? It doesn't appear to be very windy at the location.
No hydraulics in the MD-500. It's all done with an electric trim (the coolie hat switch on the cyclic), thus there'S much more feedback from the main rotor back into the controls. Still awesome (and precise!) to fly
I noticed he had quite a bit of right pedal in on the ground but then I noticed he had the pedals staggered, 3rd hole on the left and 4th hole on the right? I wonder if this is for comfort being in a hover all the time because his feet were aligned most of the time, but due the pedal adjustment he has left pedal in for the hover
Precisely for that reason, requires lot of left pedal for this kind of work (high power demand) and stretching your leg the whole time gets kinda old (and rather imprecise) very fast
One sexy little machine !
How much is your pay. And the technician. 😁
👍👍👍👍
What country are they in?
Norway
@@euroastar350 Didn’t he say that that helicopter isn’t operated in Norway?
@@nicola6323 It's a rare helicopter in Norway
@@nicola6323 I just now heard the part where single engine helicopters aren't able to the job in Norway, not sure the country they are in
Without knowing I would say it's in the US somewhere. It's definitely not Norway.