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Planning Resources for Heavy Lifts

Checklists and field guides built to be used on a project, not just read. Every one prints clean and remembers what you have already ticked off.

3 Tools covering intake, the site walk, and the weight
Saves itself Ticked items persist per device, so a sheet can be finished later
Prints clean Black on white with the write-in rules intact
Blueprint drawing of a crated load with dimension arrows, a weight tag, a map pin, photographs and a clipboard Before the quote Helicopter Lift Project Intake Checklist The weights, dimensions, coordinates, photographs, and site conditions an operator needs before anyone can price the work. Incomplete intake is the most common reason a lift quote comes back vague or wrong. Checklist · printable
Blueprint site plan showing a landing zone, a rooftop set point, approach corridors, power lines and an exclusion boundary Before the plan Helicopter Lift Site Survey Checklist What to walk, measure, and photograph on site: staging area, flight path, obstructions, fall zone, and emergency access. Structured to be carried on a phone during the walk. Checklist · printable
Blueprint elevation of a load cell hanging between a crane hook and a spreader bar over a rectangular load Before the pick How to Verify Load Weight Establishing a certified weight rather than an estimate: nameplates, scale tickets, rigging weight, modifications, and center of gravity. The number every other lift decision rests on. Field guide · printable

How to use these

Documentation Is the Whole Job

An aerial lift is priced, engineered, and approved on paper long before an aircraft is scheduled. The information a contractor assembles up front decides whether the quote that comes back is accurate, whether the lift plan survives review, and whether the pick happens on the day it was scheduled. Most of the friction in a first aerial project traces back to a missing weight, an unphotographed obstruction, or a set point nobody put coordinates on.

These resources are the documentation side of that work, broken into the order it actually happens: gather the project facts, walk the site, then prove the weight. Each one explains not just what to collect but why the number matters, so the reasoning travels with the checklist. The full procedural background sits in the lift planning walkthrough and the Part 133 external load reference.

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