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Like most large construc-


tion projects around the world, helicopters on the Watay Project fill a variety of roles. Type 1 helicopters, the largest, and carriers of the greatest payload, often assist by moving equipment and delivering and setting towers or tower sections. Aircraft in this category include Air Cranes, Sky- cranes, Chinooks, S-61s, Boeing-Vertol 107s, Black Hawks, and Super Pumas. Type 2 helicopters—the mediums—carry and set tower sections,


supplies on board, in skid baskets, or in sling loads below the helicopter. Turbine-powered Type 3s


Near Belen, New Mexico, an MD Helicopters MD 500E operated by Rotor Power pulls a sock line during construction of a line of transmission towers.


lines through the towers.


transport cement and other construction supplies, and move smaller pieces of equipment. Very common helicopters in this segment are the variants of the venerable Huey (UH-1), including restricted-category aircraft outfitted for construction use. Te lightest helicopters, the Type 3s, are often the most versatile


aircraft on a construction project. Tese smaller aircraft regularly move workers from site to site and often directly onto a tower. Tey carry


Precision Placement Utility pilots often do significantly more than just deliver a load. Setting a load so that it doesn’t require additional handling, or perhaps making minor adjustments to its position, means crews can quickly move on to the next lift. While not all utility work requires precision placement, it saves time for the flight and ground crews and uses less fuel.


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are routinely used to carry and thread lines through transmission towers. Tese are typically “sock lines” or light but strong ropes that the pilots pull through guides on the towers. Ground crews then attach high-voltage trans- mission cables or lighter dis- tribution cables to the sock line, winching the combined


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