Originally Posted by
Jetscream 32
Is that a leading question? There is a whole ton of expertise on here with Avro / RJ experience and quite a few with fire ops knowledge, what nobody can really justify from the clip shown is the reason for not following the USFS own guidelines on retardant drops that were recently published
here and by the grace of God being a few feet from certain fatal consequences. It was no doubt a lesson that will be learned hopefully very quickly and not repeated any time soon, both to other operators as well as either Neptune or Aeroflite - whoever's a/c it was that was in the clip...
You have no experience in airborne firefighting then?
You post a clip of one aircraft and then reach conclusions about the industry.