Carol Shenkenberger wrote:
> PL> I thought it was fun getting my DIVO up on the mast for a PMS spotchec
> PL> for an annual check (this was aboard CG-68).
> 
> Design makes that one a little scarier than most so thats an evil thing to do 
> to the poor guy!  (grin, I'd do it too).

I'd agree if it weren't for the fact that he was the one that complained 
  after attending the shipboard training that he'd never have to go 
aloft, and know how to wear the safety harness.

> harness then when we took him out there and showed him where the check was, he 
> gritted his teeth and made us proud but afterwards, he said he'd been terrified
> the whole time and would be happy to change his checks if his 'random' did that
> again.

Good on him!

> rescheduled within periodicity.  Having been up there alot myself, I tend to 
> want to be sure we are not gusting by more than 10MPH above the regular and the
> regular be 15MPH or lower.  Normally if above 10 total (including gusts) I'll 
> try to reset the more dangerous checks to a calmer time.

I did the same.  Fortunately, we had but one thing up there we had to 
check, and that annually.  The following year we went into overhaul, and 
the radioment took the antenna along with the rest for overhaul, 
eliminating the need for the check.  The divo questioned me about it, 
though - because he remembered the previous year's "fun".

> Alot of my gear on the various ships is in 'easy reach pattern' but not all of 
> it.  Got 'spider antennas' all over the place for example.  Some real easy, and
> some quite awkward to get to.  Those darn dough-boys are unfun as well in some 
> places.

I can imagine.
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