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You are safer on a longline, absolutely right! But:
1. It's much more difficult to place a load exactly on a longer line, than on short line. Try a bullseye from 10m and from 50m!
2. On a longer line you need a more sophisticated approach, a belly load could handled nearly as the helicopter alone.
3. Bad approaches ends in great and delayed movements of the load, tricky to stop with longlines. Same to movements of "self-flying loads" on longlines.
4. Difficult to the pilot to estimate the height of the load above ground or obstacles with longer lines by himself. Only sometimes he get a little info by the shadow of the load.
But to stop the fruitless discussion, i'm shure we are both know what we have to do while slingloading. Interesting is, with:
If it works for you , great, but believe me, Mirrors will not be used in any production work in North America anytime soon.
we have some deep differencies between Europe and US. Question is WHY?