Originally Posted by
havick
There’s a bunch of Aussies on E3’s flying on fires in helicopters and some on 802 Air Tractors in the Aussie off season. Fire operators only really take experienced pilots that meet all the contract minimums on E3 that can slot straight in and get carded by USFS/DOI as a Captain as that’s what they would be short on (if they are short at all).
The fixed wing fire carding process in the US is quite onerous (don’t have them in front of me right now), but you need X number of drops, X hours in mountainous terrain, X number hours PIC on type etc etc.
So even someone with a bunch of hours and a bunch of multi float time probably won’t even hear back unless they can contractually slot straight in as a Captain. They can organically grown FO’s locally so no real need to hire an FO on a 415 on an E3.
Mate of mine is dropping Meatbombs out of a Twotter in the US on an E3
Could be possible? Worth a shot, good luck.
BAz
