Originally Posted by
Fogliner
Would it not be good to provide our Military pilots with flying hours doing firefighting work rather than just parking them or flying non critical missions to stay current?
regards
fog
I'm not sure where or how this assumption keeps cropping up in Air Tanker discussions that military crew are just waiting around not flying with spare time to master an entirely new role. In the decade I've been in, I haven't seen military aviation busier than it is now, and that was before Operation Bushfire Assist started. It is just simply not true that the military have the people available to do this, or the aircraft (currently at least). It would be much better suited to a civilian agency with the actual expertise to do the work, not just a slapped together currency to tick off once every 3 months.