davebutler Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 [media=vimeo]48642618[/media] 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightyknots Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 [media=vimeo]48642618[/media] Some serious boating too! It seems as if the rudder and yoke need a lot of movement to keep the ship flying!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Communications Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 what a great video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M61A1 Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 I'd hate to be maintaining those........salt walter.......corrosion. Looks fairly brutal type of flying, hard work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cscotthendry Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 I have a friend in Spain/Italy that flies firefighting helicopters. Pretty hairy stuff from what he describes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 It seems as if the rudder and yoke need a lot of movement to keep the ship flying!! I reckon the air above those fires and in amongst hills would be pretty damn turbulent, probably contributes to the action on the controls! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bull Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 and-directional-control-during-water-drop-[see-the-drop-where-he-wiggles-the-tail-],,,,,,,,,AWESOME-video---What-a-job--,,HIGH-stress-risk--pressure-[to-stop--the-fire-]also---sherr-pleasure-flying-an-old-bird-with-turbines,low-flying-under-the-mins-without-fear-,,,and-i-mean-without-fear-did-ya-see-some-of-that-beach-stufff,,,,,Hairy-man,,,,,,,cool,,,,,,,,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark11 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Great video... What do they do when no fires... I'd be wanting to fly all the time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hongie Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Has everything in one corner a couple of times there.. He looked pretty wired when they showed him early on too lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maj Millard Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Cool stuff !!.....Love the way they go full power for the water pick-up...and those big boys take some man-handling don't they !!!....................................................................Maj... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riley Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Great video...What do they do when no fires... I'd be wanting to fly all the time! Don't know what the Spaniards do when they aren't scooping & dumping but I visited a CL215 fire bombing station in Northern Canada a few years back with my old winger who'd retired from the service as a chief pilot on the 215's in the late nineties. The flight crew lived in a self-sufficient donga-type arrangement at the airstrip in the bush and worked a 6 week rotation. The duty pilot that I met apparently went into town (32km rtn) to the pub for his meals after last light ea day and got back before sun-up most mornings. On the day that I got the cook's tour of the aircraft, this guy stunk of stale booze so bad that if he'd opened his mouth instead of the trap doors over a bush fire, he would have torched the aircraft. When I commented on this later to my winger his response was "this guy is good and good fire bombers get cut some slack but I don't know if he's good because of his nerves or because he's generally boozed up and doesn't recognize fear". Guess if I had been part of that crew I would have also taken up drinking to avoid the fear of the consequences of 'minimal hours from bottle to throttle.' I have a bent propellor blade in my hangar from a Turbo Otter that got crunched in a scooping run over there but I don't know if they ever lost a CL215. So what do they do when they aren't dumping?.................. during the day all of them swotted mosquitos and at night some of them were drinking! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightyknots Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Don't know what the Spaniards do when they aren't scooping & dumping but I visited a CL215 fire bombing station in Northern Canada a few years back with my old winger who'd retired from the service as a chief pilot on the 215's in the late nineties. The flight crew lived in a self-sufficient donga-type arrangement at the airstrip in the bush and worked a 6 week rotation. The duty pilot that I met apparently went into town (32km rtn) to the pub for his meals after last light ea day and got back before sun-up most mornings. On the day that I got the cook's tour of the aircraft, this guy stunk of stale booze so bad that if he'd opened his mouth instead of the trap doors over a bush fire, he would have torched the aircraft. When I commented on this later to my winger his response was "this guy is good and good fire bombers get cut some slack but I don't know if he's good because of his nerves or because he's generally boozed up and doesn't recognize fear". Guess if I had been part of that crew I would have also taken up drinking to avoid the fear of the consequences of 'minimal hours from bottle to throttle.' I have a bent propellor blade in my hangar from a Turbo Otter that got crunched in a scooping run over there but I don't know if they ever lost a CL215. So what do they do when they aren't dumping?.................. during the day all of them swotted mosquitos and at night some of them were drinking! It sounds like a continous inactive-hyperactive-inactive cycle: boredom interspersed with the odd period of extreme exhilaration. It's a hard job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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