[SBE] WUSA video on antenna install for Washington DC CH24

[Edwin Bukont]

The cost of operations is WAY HIGH for those choppers.  You don't joy ride or run up the meter.  Those guys want to spend only as much time in the air as they need to.  And joy rides add to risks.  You dont put anything in and take it up unless you need to.  I have done a couple of these and found the pilots always very conscious of the costs and risks in their work.  Very professional, very exact, get in, get loaded, get it done, get out.  I bet that pick was $15k-25k.Edwin Bukont CSRE, DRB, CBNT Comm-Struction and Services LLC V- 410.879.5567 F- 410.272.5750 C- 240.417.2475 ebukont at msn.com A Harris Broadcast Channel Partner > From: billw at betterlifetv.tv> To: sbe at sbe.org> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:22:29 -0700> Subject: Re: [SBE] WUSA video on antenna install for Washington DC CH24> > I think the chopper pilot is a freakin stud to fly like that. It fascinates> me every time I see one of those drops. It was clean, fast, and probably the> safest way to do that size of antenna removal/installation. I'm all for the> chopper myself. I've used / setup jin-poles for my little antennas - to a> SL-8 from Scala, but anything bigger than that takes some serious rigging> ... when you can call the Hawaii Five-O crew and bam done. > > I'm curious ... if you paid for a set number of hours ... why didn't they> load up the crew and joy ride until the time was up - :-)> > Bill Whitt> > -----Original Message-----> From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Bruce> Doerle> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 11:33 AM> To: SBE National discussion mail list <sbe at sbe.org>> Subject: Re: [SBE] WUSA video on antenna install for Washington DC CH24> > Norm Jeweler, US Tower, likes choppers. He did the same for the TV antenna> that went on the top of Metropolitan Police Department's tower back in the> early eighties. It is quick and easy. Besides how do you mount a gin pole> on a cantilevered section?> > >>> "Henry M. Seiden" <info at techworkspro.com> 10/27/2008 2:01 PM >>>> Anybody see this going up?> > http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=77572&catid=158 > > Curious, why the speedy removal/installation via expensive chopper- > dropper? Somebody's got some cash, at least.> --> > > _______________________________________________> The SBE Roundtable, SBE at sbe.org> To unsubscribe, go to http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/options/sbe> > http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/sbe> No virus found in this incoming message.> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.8.4/1749 - Release Date: 10/27/2008> 7:57 AM> > _______________________________________________> The SBE Roundtable, SBE at sbe.org> To unsubscribe, go to http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/options/sbe> > http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/sbe
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