Category Archives: Helicopter Pilot
The Burn Over
Our Helitac crew’s firefighting efforts and my water drops were not going to be enough to get this wildfire under control. No control today and unless we got some help from Mother Nature, not for a few days.There were no … Continue reading →
Answer the radio
“I’ll bet you have had some frightening experiences?” It is a question I often get from people who ask about my helicopter firefighting career. “Not too many really”, I say “and I work hard to keep it that way” A … Continue reading →
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Situation Normal
Another oh dark thirty wake up, for a first light departure. I could never see the urgency in getting people off a ship that would still be there, at say, 07:30, rather than by the dawns early light at 05:45.The … Continue reading →
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Out on the Range
You can always tell when the shared bravado has left the confines of your helicopter cabin and everyone including you is now seriously concerned. Call it, the suddenly sterile cabin. Single pilot VFR helicopter flights in marginal weather are nothing … Continue reading →
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Some things you never forget
Why more of us didn’t die in crashes I’ll never know. Some did. I had been looking through my old pilot logbooks. All six of them. Another pilot had asked me online about my experience with helicopters other than the … Continue reading →
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Initial Attack
The following is the partial definition of the wildland firefighting term that is the title for this blog and governs a lot of the firefighting I have done in the U.S.A. with helicopters of various types. Initial attack is the … Continue reading →
And,now,for my next trick
Those of us who choose to write about our flying misadventures run the risk that their audience no matter how few they are, may decide, that you are in fact ,a moron. By way of a very limited defense, I … Continue reading →
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Helicopter Pilot,does travel
I am going to end 2008 in a foreign country. We started 2008 in a foreign country, so that seems right. New Years 2008 was down in Belize and we spent a very enjoyable evening with new friends watching fireworks … Continue reading →
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Urban Interface
Its the term used to describe wildfires that run into densely populated areas.I have fought a lot of these types of fires over the years and the number one rule, just as it is with physicians, is first, do no … Continue reading →
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Dog Sitter
My passenger was not barking anymore. He never liked it when I hovered down wind. Too much exhaust blowing into the cockpit through my open door. Long lining drill support equipment with my little Bell47T meant that I sometimes had … Continue reading →
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Helicopter Pilot, will travel 