Originally Posted by
Lookleft
The conditions were that bad in the area with the wind and turbulence that the birddog pilot and 737 pilot were not going to accept the tasking.
Originally Posted by
currawong
Yes. Why were they even tasked when everyone else had called it?
The C130 was already tasked and airborne enroute when the 737 crew decided to not continue retardant runs over that fire. The C130 was retasked to a different fire than the fire that the Birddog pilot and the 737 had decided was too windy. It's not like they sent the C-130 to a fire that 2 other aircrews had already deemed too hazardous.