Walker Fire 19AUG21 

🎉🎉🎉🎉 200% agree

Certs and ratings are the easy part - variety of experience is most difficult to get. Here's an interview with our chief pilot where he talks about qualifications and experience required to get a FireBoss seat. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-doKfdJo8c4g.html

I’d do it for free.

One just went down a month ago pilot did not survive. Poorly designed water tanks seem to plague these planes ☹️

We can carry 800 gallons in the hopper, but how much we take depends on lake elevation, temps, winds, obstacles, etc.

It would be even better with sexdeca-copter drones!! Half as many needed and twice as fast!!! You should totally do this!!!

@@brentvoris4399 I am sure my generation is working on it ;)

It's a FireBoss, an Air Tractor 802 on special WipAire floats with a Hydromax gate. I've spent my career flying specialty aviation gigs around the world, but this is what I always wanted to do.

Pretty cool videos!

Everything is a trade off. We deliver water to the fire much more economically than any other platform.

1600 HP!!!! (And more in the yellow arc)

There’s good info at our website Dauntlessair.com - also here's an interview with our chief pilot where he talks about qualifications : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kSAi4Rn7HEs.htmlsi=gFrLV3-9YPrtYWbG

@@brentvoris4399 thank you!

@@brentvoris4399 This is a dream job for me in the long future, because I'm 17 and I have 35 more hours till I get my license. I plan on becoming a pipeline pilot for a bit, then this afterwards. How likely is it that I can do this? Should I give up?

We are always looking for qualified pilots. You’ll get into a FireBoss if that’s your goal. Giving up is the only way to fail.

@@brentvoris4399 Awe, thank you! that's very reassuring

We work out of Moses lake sometimes. Usually mid August until the end of September

@@brentvoris4399 Where are you based? I've seen a couple Super Scoopers flying around Moses Lake.

We have contracts all over the US. Our Washington contracts have had FireBosses based in Omak, Deer Park, Richland, Yakima, Moses Lake, and The Dalles. I’ve mostly flown out of Moses Lake when I’ve been on contract in Washington.

We can split loads if needed, but usually the water source is close enough that spending the extra time is inefficient

We still have the smoker and use it frequently. It increases our visibility when the Air Attack is trying to spot us coming into the fire traffic area, and as an “I see you” when working in close proximity with other scoopers or helos. It’s also great for communicating our scoop lane intentions to watercraft among other things. We don’t necessarily carry flaps all the way to the fire - If they’re really short turns between the fire and the scoop they may never come fully up, but if it’s a matter of miles we’ll be flaps up as soon as we stop climbing.

Yeah - you’re not the only one who thinks that 😆 I like it the way it is though

What? The music is jammin.

@@TumbleTrashOfficial Any potential monetization or ad revenue is lost because of the copyrighted song. If the channel get's more subscribers may want to use RU-vid library or other royalty free source rather than popular music; or drop the music like others have said.