Originally Posted by
Wunwing
Firstly air crew would have to be paid. You just don't fly a B737 or anything else as a part timer.
No reason they couldn't be full timers. We pay the AMSA crews year round and they fly what, 150 hours a year?
With the bombers flying non stop during fire season and doing a bit of training in the off season, over a year they'd probably average the same sort of utilisation.
After a season like this one the B737 bomber crews might even find more hours in their logbook at the end of the year than the AMSA guys.