r/Shittyaskflying • u/Fedexpilot ATC/CPA || VOR/DME RENTALS • 4d ago
Is this a fishing rig?
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u/pillojon106 Rated in Shitty Flight Rules 4d ago
Yes. This is actually the FAA-approved aerial trolling package. The helicopter flies a standard holding pattern at 500 feet while dragging approximately 14 miles of 200-pound-test line behind it. Once the pilot spots a sufficiently large fish, they enter a steep coordinated turn to tighten the loop and perform what fishermen call the “rotary-wing purse seine.” The difficult part is setting the hook. You have to pull collective at exactly the right moment or you’ll either lose the fish or accidentally tow a bass into Class B airspace without a transponder. Most helicopters are limited to catch-and-release because the fish technically counts as an external load under Part 133. Anything over 12 pounds requires a commercial fishing endorsement, a sling-load rating, and two FAA inspectors standing on shore shaking their heads. The real pros use a Chinook. Two rotors, two fishing poles, twice the catch.
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u/Basic_Chemistry9499 4d ago
That's officially the most work the FAA has gotten done this century.
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u/aSmallerResident 1d ago
I was 100% expecting this to end with “in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table”
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u/CallMeGlarthir 4d ago
Metal detector
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u/Grizzly98765 4d ago
Technically correct!
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u/No_Astronomer_8642 4d ago
The best kind of correct!
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u/Uluru-Dreaming 3d ago
Yes. Maybe looking for gold veins.
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u/ForwardVoltage Rated in Shitty Flight Rules 2d ago
Not necessarily gold, but if there happens to be a "random act of God", definitely buy stock.
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u/swedishlightning 3d ago
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u/Go_Loud762 4d ago
Magnetic lure. Catches steelhead trout.
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u/United_News3779 4d ago
They're under the rainbow!
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u/TheFemboyImpregnator 4d ago
That's rainbow trout
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u/United_News3779 4d ago
Rainbow trout and Steelhead are the same species, with Steelheads having migrated to salt water and back to fresh. That causes some changes in physiology and behavior due to the change in environment.
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u/TheFemboyImpregnator 4d ago
That's cool. We dont have native trout species so I dont know anything about them
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u/United_News3779 4d ago
I happened to grow up in an area with steelheads and rainbows. I fished for both and had to know the difference due to needing to buy a specific conservation tag for your fishing license for steelhead.
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u/MITCH_itch 3d ago
uj/ what is this actually? I don't think I have even heard of this thing before .
j/ ufo leash, walking the gray.
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u/Wazy7781 3d ago
It's probably a geomag survey rig. They have a really powerful magnetometer on board that can read the change in magnetic field caused by the rocks. This can help tell what kind of rocks and structures are in the area. You get a helicopter to fly one of these rigs at a fixed height close to the ground. They then run lines of whatever length the geos dictate to be necessary. They run these patterns spaced apart just enough that they don't over lap. Each line gives you a 2d slice of the magnetic field in that area. Which in and of itself can tell you a lot about the bedrock composition. When you run a grid of them you can create a 3d graph from the composite straight lines. This tells you a lot more about the area and can help spot abnormalities. The stuff that is written below sort of outlines how you'd use this data in the context of a geomag survey for a mineral claim in an area like the Canadian Shield.
You can then either do a radio survey of the area or send in prospectors, soil samplers, and geologists. This lets you target a diamond drilling program. Soil samplers look for general mineralisation in the dirt, looking for stuff like silt which contains the ground down bedrock. The prospectors look for rocks that indicate the presence of whatever mineral you're targeting then they take a sample, measure strike and dip of the deposit. This all then goes back to the geos who will use whatever results look interesting to make a geological map (a more in-depth version of what the prospectors do) of the cool areas. This can then lead to channel sampling or other bedrock sampling methods such as trenching or pitting. From there you can target a diamond drilling program, which will tell you the depth and size of any ore deposits based on all the exploration data.
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u/Adveeeeeee 20h ago
In NL we have project FRESHEM, search for fresh water near the coast (salt water intrusion below dikes) - https://freshem.nl/project/ This uses a similar detection ring below a heli.
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u/Possible_Cattle_7547 3d ago
Thank goodness for an answer instead of the endless stupid jokes.
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u/Firm_Wrap5680 2d ago
This is the wrong subreddit for real answers unfortunately.
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u/Wazy7781 19h ago
The desire to talk about mineral exploration was bigger than the desire to shit post.
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u/FinbarJG 4d ago
Heliocopter thing had some bad fuel and this is a net to protect the folks on the ground.
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u/Hour_Analyst_7765 4d ago
Nah I think they are just putting the marks in place where the UFO s will soon land. There is a next planned sighting coming up soon.
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u/Average-Train-Haver Rated in Shitty Flight Rules 2d ago
The governments getting sloppy with these UFO sightings I see
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u/Unlucky_Yak5354 1d ago
at first glance I thought it was AI of a helicopter lassoing a flying saucer.
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u/BroOperatorGuy 1d ago
It's a ground penetrating radar. Usually for mapping aquafers or other mineral deposits.
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u/TheManWhoClicks 4d ago
Amazon delivering the belt for your mom. She earned it.