Originally Posted by
gulliBell
I don't get it how you guys don't get it, except @Freewheel who does understand. The cargo hook is usually close to the aircraft CofG, which is a lot closer to the nose than the tail rotor. If the helicopter is 10m long, a 10m empty lifting rig on the hook if it goes aerodynamic is going to put it in range of the tail rotor. If you don't believe me, and heck, I've been slinging loads around the boonies for 20 years, read and comply with any warnings published for your role equipment. Or just look at the photo of what was left of that AS350 on the side of the hill. That's what can happen if you fly a 10m line on a piece of equipment that says don't fly me on a 10m line. Seriously guys, I don't understand what it is you don't understand.
I think we are lost in translation here and possibly saying the same thing in a different way. I'm saying don't fly with a short line, either belly hook it directly to the hook (assuming the wires on the bucket are the correct length for the aircraft) or use a 50' line or longer but nothing in between.
I think you confused everyone talking about the overall length which isn't really relevant. It's the distance from the cargo hook to the the extremities that that matters as that's where it's swinging from. Once again we are in agreement in not using a short line, and to follow the RFM and the bucket manual. It's just your original post didn't read like that is what you were trying to say.