denverpilot
Tied Down
I forgot to take a photo of the smoke plume and resulting near IMC conditions from Lamar (LAA) on up into the Denver area today, but lots of big iron was having significant turbulence from it. There was one Urgent PIREP from a Diamond Katana who apparently got too close, for severe turbulence.
The plume from the north fire reached out to Nebraska and beyond today.
Controllers step climbed us up to the "base" (if you could call it that, just continuing lower visibility, no horizon, and forward visibility pushing the limits of VMC, while straight down was clear as a bell.) and we had continuous light chop from it all.
Obviously if there's loss of life and property, its no laughing matter.
Meanwhile, humans fight wildfires, and one of the Colorado Aviation Photographers group members on Facebook caught something to give everyone a small chuckle.
This is the status board in the pilot's ready room for the tanker crews...
I'm sure this was put up because resources were light as they usually are at the beginning of such events, and changed later to far more serious information for the aircrews, just in case it gets anyone up in arms for whatever reason.
Having updated "the" status board for various other Emergency Services activities over the years, I appreciated the honesty.
The plume from the north fire reached out to Nebraska and beyond today.
Controllers step climbed us up to the "base" (if you could call it that, just continuing lower visibility, no horizon, and forward visibility pushing the limits of VMC, while straight down was clear as a bell.) and we had continuous light chop from it all.
Obviously if there's loss of life and property, its no laughing matter.
Meanwhile, humans fight wildfires, and one of the Colorado Aviation Photographers group members on Facebook caught something to give everyone a small chuckle.
This is the status board in the pilot's ready room for the tanker crews...
I'm sure this was put up because resources were light as they usually are at the beginning of such events, and changed later to far more serious information for the aircrews, just in case it gets anyone up in arms for whatever reason.
Having updated "the" status board for various other Emergency Services activities over the years, I appreciated the honesty.