Good questions O.B.
A couple of issues with the picture though...
1) The view is not exactly the pilot's eye view, the camera was held out in the bubble window, and is probably more forward and further out than my eye would be.
2) This picture is taken much higher than at any accurate drop height. As I mentioned earlier, I wasn't about to clown around with a camera when down close to the ground, so this pic was taken over 200 AGL on a Positive climbout. ( but given 150' of line, 80' trees, it may well be over 300' AGL ???)
In some situations, I will actually lower the bucket well below the tree canopy to get a more compact drop-pattern on a hot-spot.
Last edited by 407 Driver; 29th May 2004 at 03:58.