170', Heliduck, Remote Hook,
Thanks for the constructive comment. Those are some helpful pieces of advice.
Others,
Maybe I was a little casual in my statement about having never done anything like it before. I've done a fair bit of long line work (for an Aussie) I guess, mostly with a bucket under the Huey. But also some general freight under a LongRanger in PNG etc; I can't recall doing any precision long line work like this though. I knew it would be challenging but found it genuinely tough. As RH said, being able to judge height when the target is small, obscured by the load and already 20 meters AGL was the main issue.
My hat goes off to you guys who're good at this.
I still want to know how they did the tower at Mt Barker. It's something like 500' high. It was the Mil 8 from NZ I believe. Do Mil's and Kamov's have autohover? I hope so, sure hate to think some Kiwi can do something like that by eyeball and hand and I can't
