Originally Posted by
TBM-Legend
Not rubbish my friend. The aircraft come with crews by the way. The DC-10 air tanker had been booked. I can tell you that a couple of other air tanker companies in Canada and the US have offered 146/L188/CL215 air tankers that are ready now.
Queensland has no large tankers at all!
You seem to have a lack of knowledge of how it all works. NAFC is a national body, not state based and assets are tasked according to need not ownership, which is why LATs have been working in Queensland amongst other places
Ownership will be important in future seasons as the fire season expands both here and over the equator, but it’s irrelvent when assets are in country.
And yes aircraft come with crews, but not supporting crews on the ground or FACs, there are no FACS available to support additional LAT ops full stop. And as per the linked article, getting more will add cost solve little, as the CSIRO study proved. Why do you think aircraft have been returning to Richmond when there was a perfectly capable airport not far away in the case of the south coast ops last week, crewing on ground, or the lack of it.