Here's a reply from someone who knows what he is talking about. This job IS tougher than your job, whatever it was.
<<Yep. Been there. Done that. It looks simple, doesn't it? What they don’t say is that a man can faint from the heat in a “hot-suit” in East Texas in August, the pilot can feel the arcing from his microphone to his teeth, and there can be no electronic controls in the helicopter. Anything electronic gets confused, so no fly-by-wire or electronic engine-management. The helicopters were built in the 1960’s. It’s hard to get parts for them. I’ve put computers in hand-built aluminum Faraday cages, to keep them from hanging up when the lineman bonds to the line. It’s challenging, to put a continuous metal shield around a keyboard and a screen, and out to the sensors and actuators. A hushed problem in this industry is that, no matter what they say, the work is terrifying, and to do it requires some men to use illegal narcotics. It makes it possible for them to work on 500KV lines, but it makes them terrible, jittery drivers. We lose more men in traffic than on the wires.>> RLE ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
