Originally Posted by
Capn Bloggs
What, crashing a jet and almost killing yourself over a bush fire with not a threatened human structure in sight? Everything you listed, Banjo, would have prompted something other than VRef, in the weeds at full flap, descending.
The world has changed Cpt Bloggs. I agree entirely with your sentiment about the flying outcome here, but fire fighting is now also about protecting any valuable or irreplaceable assets such as certain pieces of forest or bushland. The aircraft should have been there, but flown in an entirely different manner.