Originally Posted by
Sunfish
You would need to do an inventory of suitable lakes, rivers, dams, bays, etc. You would also need to establish/design. approaches for each that takes into account known hazards (the wires over lake Eildon for example).
You would also need legislation requiring fishing and ski boats to keep clear during operations - we have had trouble with this already involving a stubborn fisherman on Lake Nilacootie during helicopter operations.
You wouldn’t need to do any of that stuff, you literally just need to see how many drops were done by the scoopers in the last few years, and then see if it’s worth getting bigger scoopers.
Sunfish, you need to give pilots credit for being able to do you know, pilot stuff.