Originally posted by greenboot
Mustang, I tried to find the AMS rules that tell me not to do it but my copy didn't have anything.
What I was doing was hovering in a parking lot that had wires overhead. It never seemed to be an issue to me. The radio worked fine. The helicopter had foam blades which could hardly bring down the St Louis power grid. I still fly there occasionally.
Tom
Just because you didn't see it in writing does not make it *RIGHT OR SAFE*
You could have taken the power from a small localized area.
Remember that many people have medical needs that run off electric and nothing worse then a person seeing his power kick off while he was on his dialysis machine.
Your not even supposed to fly a kite near power lines