tonycondon said:Eric,
My CFI Glider is currently adding on his power rating with the goal of doing single engine fire fighting. If your nephew is willing or interested, Im sure he would like to hear from someone actually doing it. PM me contact info if this is the case.
tonycondon said:Eric,
My CFI Glider is currently adding on his power rating with the goal of doing single engine fire fighting. If your nephew is willing or interested, Im sure he would like to hear from someone actually doing it. PM me contact info if this is the case.
RotaryWingBob said:That's a pretty cool picture, Eric.
Frank Browne said:A P-3 if I'm not mistaken.
ejensen said:Which one?
Only those and P2Vs still flying, at least for the Feds.
ejensen said:Which one?
Only those and P2Vs still flying, at least for the Feds.
Frank Browne said:Oops sorry. The first photo in the thread. P-3s are a very common sight here. They follow the river between Mayport and Jax so I get to see them coming and going at low altitude a lot.
ejensen said:I was joking a little. There are two planes in the picture. I missed the King Air on my first look.
ejensen said:Got this from my wife's nephew. He training as an air attack boss. Not sure if he took it or not.
alaskaflyer said:Most tanker lead planes are contract also. For that matter most patrol planes (fire patrol planes) are contract.
I always thought that a lead plane assignment would be pretty darn cool.
tonycondon said:P3 is an amazing craft. I listened to a presentation by the pilot of the P3 that got ran into by a chinese fighter and landed in china a few years back. Amazing stuff. Hell of a piloting job just to get it on the ground. Good chunk of left wing and both left engines were messed up. He said he tore his shoulder out fighting the controls to keep the wings level. yowza!
ejensen said:Most the Forest Service leads are still Federal employees, at least down here. Since the P-Barons were all grounded they've been leasing the planes. Tried TBM700s and KingAirs.
We're down to two owned aircraft in this Region, a T206 for bug mapping and a King Aire A100 photo ship. Both are drug 'repros'.
tonycondon said:He said he tore his shoulder out fighting the controls to keep the wings level. yowza!
NC19143 said:That aircraft is now back flying, and has a mig painted on the nose.
I have the FE working with me here at AIMD Whidbey.
NC19143 said:That P-3 belongs to Aero-union inc the largest contract fire fighting outfit. they are located in Che-co(sp) Ca.
That P-3 has 4, T-56-A14 giving 5700 horses each.
Ghery said:I hope the Chinese take notice the next time they fly up close to that bird. Good lesson for them.
Brent Bradford said:Doubt we will make money but here is my company's contribution to the fighting:
http://www.ci.victorville.ca.us/news/06_stories/07-18_tanker.html