Omega Coast Guard Station

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Pacific Helicopters has provided various helicopter support services for the maintenance of the Omega station during the past decade.

We are currently involved in the dismantling of the station.

To include:

• Hanging crews and equipment from suspension wires
• Bringing down lines in sections
• Bringing down equipment from ridge line

The scope of the project was to remove a network of 6 - 30,000 LBS, 7500' long spans of 2" cable to include 5 - 4000 LBS, 700' jumper cables that connected the six cables and 2 20,000 LBS 1200 ft vertical cables that transferred power from the generating building to antenna spans.

The ends of the 7500 foot spans were on 2 ridge lines at 2500 ft above sea level. The belly of the spans were 1200 ft above the ground. Each of the six antenna spans were installed with 60,000 pounds of tension.

Work involved transporting men from the ground by helicopter and landing them on the wires in baskets. We removed the 4000 LB jumpers by taking the weight from the men in baskets and flying the 200 ft lengths of cable to the ground.

Upon removing all jumpers we were required to fly 3000' of 5/8" Cable to anchor points from a 90 Ton Winch to reduce tension and lower 7500' spans. Upon lowering spans we cut the cable into 1000' pieces, removed 5000 lb insulator groups and flew out the individual segments.

After completion of lowering the six spans we flew crews to the twelve anchor points on the ridge tops, cut and flew the 4000 lb steel anchor points to a marshalling yard at the bottom of the valley.

The job was to begin on September 30,1997 and was scheduled to be completed on December 30,1997. We completed the job in 30 days on October 30,1997, 60 days ahead of schedule by using techniques developed throughout our years of experience. There were no accidents or incidents in 160 flight hours on the job.

Pacific Helicopters
Kahului Heliport Hangar #109
Kahului, Hawaii 96732
Phone: 808.871.9771
FAX: 808.871.5806
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