Originally Posted by
falcon920
More or less I’m trying to come up with persuasive arguments why my operator shouldn’t conduct hoist or Bambi Bucket training ops over cars or people when working within the training area. The training areas we utilize include a sizable area void of people, cars or buildings but unfortunately some training scenarios that have been created would require short haul flight paths that fly over the top of people, cars and buildings. My position is that this is an unnecessary risk and the plans can be tweaked so that there’s no overflight of people not directly involved in the operation.
Besides FAR Part 133 I’d like to see if there’s additional material that can be referenced for making an argument against the scenarios above.
Surely the fact that you may have to jettison the load or the load may jettison it’s self is enough not to fly over people or property when it’s not really required, if the load hit anyone it would kill them, potential risk of going to prison and becoming someone’s play thing 😳 or being sued surely this is reason enough.
Rule number 1 in any crane operation is don’t stand under the load or position the load above people.