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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • The big hazard there would be the actual line tangling up in the rotors and causing physical damage.

    Phone lines don’t carry enough power to be a real problem. They won’t actually electrocute you with enough current to cause damage.

    High voltage powerline work is regularly done via helicopter, because it’s the easiest way to reach lines suspended above wilderness. The helicopter flys in close, an operator reaches out and touches the line with a metal rod to bring the aircraft to the same voltage potential as the line, then work can be performed on the line as needed, from the aircraft, without shock hazard because there’s no connection to ground or anywhere else for current to flow. Just don’t touch more than one line at a time nor the towers/pylons.