Shy Torque
A very true statement you make by saying its not such a good idea to fly over built up areas with an USL. I remember during the early days with Chinooks down in the Falklands. We had a few nasty incidents with loads just fecking off for no apparent reason. We “lost” generators, porta cabins, boll@cks, iso containers not to mention a few shake on mini containers
We discovered that you can make quite a bang dropping a 2000 kg boll@ck full of diesel from 1000 ft
Only ever had to pickle a load off once and that was an FH70. Big gun! Helps when the rigging team put the breaks on otherwise when you land it at designated point which is on quite a steep slope of a valley side. Bloody thing developed a life of its own when it touched down and tried to take us with it. “Ping” When all the dust had settled it looked very sad with its barrel stuck in the mud bank on the other side of the stream
Very nearly had a similar experience in the Falklands trying to put a phantom onto a small ship, because of the downwash no one wanted to choc it.
Happy days.