Love it Brent. And I know your totally in your element!!!😂
@eveningstarnm310710 ай бұрын
I enjoyed that. I’d like to see the long version!
@brentvoris439910 ай бұрын
I think I sped that compilation of drops up about 7X. I enjoy watching it in real time too, but wanted to show the progression of working around a small fire.
@piNokiaaАй бұрын
Need 360 camer 😂
@TheFoxEssenceАй бұрын
What kind of plane do you fly? And what is that a hatch on the front? Great piloting!
@handlemoniumАй бұрын
AT-802 Fire Boss
@brentvoris4399Ай бұрын
It’s a FireBoss amphibious water scooper. An Air Tractor 802 on modified Wipaire 10,000 floats with a 1600 hp Pratt & Whitney PT6-67F turboprop. We can pick up 800 gallons of water in about 15 seconds and cruise at about 140 knots.
@brentvoris4399Ай бұрын
The hatch on the front is a spring loaded door that blows open when the hopper/tank overfills and allows water to exit the top of the tank … at about 3200 gallons per minute
@TheFoxEssenceАй бұрын
@@brentvoris4399 very interesting 🤔
@n2b9982 жыл бұрын
Slightly off topic question. It doesn't look as if the vegetation is particularly dry. How do these tundra fires get started?
@brentvoris43992 жыл бұрын
They're usually started by lightning strikes. At the beginning of the video is footage of two very small fires - one just a few square feet and another that's a few hundred square feet in size - both of those were lightning-caused fires that occurred after we arrived to fight the two nearby larger fires that were threatening cabins on the Noatak River.
@olivierwery73366 ай бұрын
Do you have a bird dog telling you what to do or do you guys just go scoop and drop unsupervised?
@brentvoris43992 ай бұрын
We typically have an Air Attack coordinating operations between us and the ground, but we’re all initial attack qualified and can work with the incident commander on the ground directly. If we’re the first to the fire we can size it up and employ the tactics we think are most suited to conditions
@brentvoris43992 ай бұрын
We typically have an Air Attack coordinating operations between us and the ground, but we’re all initial attack qualified and can work with the incident commander on the ground directly. If we’re the first to the fire we can size it up and employ the tactics we think are most suited to conditions