Contractors – Pioneer Electric
Williamstown and Wiconisco near Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Overhead Transmission Line Documentation
Construction Video and Photography Documentation
September 2020
ALL PRO USA traveled to Williamstown, near Harrisburg and Dauphin County Pennsylvania to complete this project. The project was a overhead transmission line that needed documentation before the contractor started replacing the towers. The first part of the project was about 126 existing structures and was documented in three ways. The first two went hand in hand, the team took turns walking the line to document the towers from the ground. They did this utilizing handheld video and still photography. For the video it was shot using a Nikon Z6 mirrorless camera mounted to a DJI Ronin Gimbal. This helped to stabilize the shot and provide smooth video to the contractor. The handheld still photography was shot using a Canon 5D Mark IV. The third form of documentation was aerial videography. Utilizing a DJI Mavic 2 Pro the team documented the towers from the air for the entire length of the line. The Contractor that had hired us to complete this project was Pioneer Electric. Throughout the project all members of the team wore high visibility vests as well as hats to ensure the safety of the team.
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Once we completed the ground level documentation from start to finish we revisited parts of the line to supplement the documentation that we already captured with video and photos from our drone. We utilized our DJI Mavic Pro 2 drone to capture areas that were either inaccessible from the ground or would benefit from a different angle for the documentation. For the flights we had one of our FAA certified drone pilots operate the controls of the drone while the other acted as the Visual Observer to ensure that there were not hazards in the flight path of the drone. A challenge that this job presented was the terrain that the transmission lines crossed made it difficult for the Visual Observer and the Remote Pilot in Command to be right next to each other during the flight. To solve this we used radio communication to ensure that the RPIC and the VO were in constant communication when they could not be side by side. This allowed for safe operation of the drone and for the capture of some high quality and unique angles of the transmission line.
