Good Tanker Video

mjg407

mjg407

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But you may want to turn down the volume to avoid the cheese....


enjoy
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mjg407 said:
But you may want to turn down the volume to avoid the cheese....


enjoy
[YT]bv6aYGGbqTA[/YT]
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Gotta be one of the neatest jobs ever.... every year I apply and do something that increases my potential value with air attack companies.... still waiting to win my lottery.... you fellers are lucky.
 
great video but you were right about the music. while watching it i thought to myself the only thing that could make this soundtrack worse is any top gun song...then i saw the end. seriously amateur youtube aviation video creatures, stop it. the top gun soundtrack stopped being cool (if it ever was) in '86.
 
mjg407 said:
aren't you supposed to be flying right now?
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Not until we get checked out with FLIR/ or night vision... dude, it's DARK in Colorado!

Firebird2XC said:
Cool video.

What was with the light twin in the video?

Was that a lead-in plane?
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that's a lead plane... Look under my firefighting photoalbum in FB you can see a King Air leading a P 3 from a front view with wingtip vortices in the slurry!
 
Bumblebee said:
Not until we get checked out with FLIR/ or night vision... dude, it's DARK in Colorado!


that's a lead plane... Look under my firefighting photoalbum in FB you can see a King Air leading a P 3 from a front view with wingtip vortices in the slurry!
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Sick! Is that under your company or somebody else?
 
lead planes are operated by the USFS and BLM...they are in touch with the ground Incident Commander (IC) and determine where they want us to deliver the retardant. They also are on scene and give briefings on hazards such as power lines, high snags and also the escape, should we pop an engine and have trouble climbing... a lot of where we work is high elevations and high temperatures, which equates to high density altitudes.
 
Bumblebee said:
lead planes are operated by the USFS and BLM...they are in touch with the ground Incident Commander (IC) and determine where they want us to deliver the retardant. They also are on scene and give briefings on hazards such as power lines, high snags and also the escape, should we pop an engine and have trouble climbing... a lot of where we work is high elevations and high temperatures, which equates to high density altitudes.
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That's kind of cool. Didn't know the USFS used recon planes.

The P3 has climb performance issues with an engine out? Even with DA, are you that heavily loaded?
 
Firebird2XC said:
That's kind of cool. Didn't know the USFS used recon planes.

The P3 has climb performance issues with an engine out? Even with DA, are you that heavily loaded?
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it's pretty good with one out, but we are slow, and often need to be slow for maneuvering in canyons... the concern really is what if we take out two on the same side...(birds)? How well can we maneuver and climb?...what is our best path downslope?
Sometimes we arrive and the smoke is hiding stuff the leadplane pilot is aware of...
 
Bumblebee said:
it's pretty good with one out, but we are slow, and often need to be slow for maneuvering in canyons... the concern really is what if we take out two on the same side...(birds)? How well can we maneuver and climb?...what is our best path downslope?
Sometimes we arrive and the smoke is hiding stuff the leadplane pilot is aware of...
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Good points. I've done hoist rescues for firefighters in my previous life. A smokey box canyon is the last place you don't want to have an exit strategy.

Rough work, mountain firefighting. Hats off to ya and yours, sir.
 
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