Air Tractor AT-802 Fire Boss Air Tankers In Action 

I was an Air Attack Officer for 14 years in northern Canada in the 80s and 90s. I directed Douglas DC-6s, CL-215s, A-26s, S-22 Tracker Firecats, PBY Cansos, Fokker F-22s, etc., using a Ted Smith Aerostar as Birddog. My air supervisor back then, RP, went on to work with Conair Aviation and is responsible for the development of these Firebosses and other air tankers. He has been the CEO of the company for decades now. Brilliant and innovative company.

Cool video of these workhorses in action. Lucky to have a usable lake so close to the fire.

Good looking airplane, beautiful scenery, perfect video. Thumbs up!!

this brings back so much nostalgia. when me and my brother where kids, we would watch them fly mere feet above out house during fire season, we could see the pilots and read the numbers on the planes. good times.

Really like watching these very cool little tankers in action, Great footage.

Weve got some here in Australia currently battling our bushfires . We need more

Awesome little workhorses!

This is the first time I have seen floats on a agricultural mule. Looks good! Nice

Awesome footages mate!! Love to see these birds in action! :D

Very cool footage! A big thumbs up!

Always great to see special planes like these on your channel! Great video, liked a lot! :)

A Nice Work!!congratulations at all team! excelent video! professionals Pilots! I love that! I'm Commercial Pilot! I would love to flight a Air Tractor AT- 802 Fire Boss!!!Beautiful place!!!

That looks like fun !

That plane looks like Firefighter Dusty Crophopper from Disney Planes Fire and Rescue!

Muy buen trabajo de los bomberos del aire.

Very nice Air Tractor! Firefighters Brasilia have an Air Tractor, I think incredible. Awesome video friend! █▐▐▐█

Awesome as always!

An interesting sight! Thumbs up for the couple of shots!

Some amazing flying and very skilled pilots. Liked a lot and thanks for posting - first time I have seen this type of operation.

Awesome shots! Really spectacular :)

Greetings from America! Love this channel. We always have fires in Eastern Washington so I always see planes like this flying around. Very nice video.

Great shots, mate! the landings on the water were very spectacular to see. Nice job! :) Liked!

Great footage of these AT-802's ...Nice to see them in action....Cheers...Steve.-:)

Ahha what a brilliant aircraft! Love it. Great video

Nice shots of these special aircraft. Liked a lot. :-)

Very good video buddy! Awesome to see this!

The Fire Boss is 3 million ready to go and hauls 800 gallons of water, the CL 415 or super scooper is 35 million, and hauls 1600 gallons, and I don't believe that includes the fire fighting retrofit. Its not hard to figure out why people are buying the Fire Boss's. One CL 415 cannot out work five or six fire Boss's

Very cool plane! Nice footage of it. :)

Nice to see air tankers in Canada.

So cool !!!! There is one working Lake Eustis in Florida right now.

Great to see them in action, hopefully they get the wildfires under control!

How much water can they pick up ??

What do you have to do to become a pilot for one of those planes

A hard work.

Dusty the crophopper

Just north of the West Arm Bridge in Nelson, BC.

No idea there was a float version

Hey Nice cool vids we have some docen of this airplanes in Córdoba province and Argentina country too, and i was filmed some takeoff and landings too if u can watch. The at802 have a nice pt6 turboprop engine😂

pzl dromader. ?

its dusty crophopper

This is my dream job. I need to figure out how to apply.

First time here on the Channel and put me down to get hired on fly in Air Tractor single engine Turboprop

Where abouts in the Kootenays??

Where? Looks Canadian

Question. Just how scaleable is the use of these AT-802's in delivering payload to a fire site before a larger more expensive multi engine aircraft with a larger individual pass payload becomes more effective? It looks like these 820 gallon capacity AT-802 aircraft are more effective as water straffers vs retardant bombers. A large tanker can unload upwards of 1500 to 3,000 gallons per pass and the DC10 or 747 supertanker aircraft can deliver between 5,000 to 11,000 gallons of water or retardant per pass. It would take up to at least 13 to 15 AT-802's to match one 747 pass based just on capacity. How would the multiplier effect of the much more rapid sortie rate counter the shear mass of the single pass supertanker drop? Where does the increased number of smaller planes on site become a capacity constraint? At some point the number of aircraft moving around becomes a significant constraint. Airports use huge capacity fire trucks vs many little trucks for air crashes for a reason.

ja sam kupil na placu,čoveče

4 thumbs down? Seriously....

Prefiero los CL-415

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Awesome footages mate!! Love to see these birds in action! :D