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Originally Posted by mrvette
What is a shock to ME is that the humidity in the air would not make for a tingling sensation to anyone in the copter......and of course if it was RAINING???
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High humidity would not be a problem. Even saturated to 100% humid air is a very good insulator. If it was raining hard enough to lower the resistance of the air, and the rain itself was dirty enough to conduct electricity well, at that point it would probably be unsafe conditions in general and they wouldn't even be flying around in a chopper around power lines period. But just a little rain would be OK, it would just make the distance you could get from a grounded object a bit farther. Like instead of being safe at 4 feet away when it's not raining, maybe you'd be safe only from 5 feet away.