Earl...
206 Floating in Gaitor Country
That picture was taken on the Everglades National Park down in Southern Florida. It is somewhat scary dipping buckets down that way looking at all the gators thru the chin bubble.....
ps: Gordy - you never did get back to me on the 'HeliMex' thread to confirm if you were the Henry Winkler look alike holding the machine gun!
Ah...just saw that----nope not me, that is Rob, one of my other pilots. I prefer to work with a helitack crew rather than get suck doing nothing but buckets all day.
Here are some of the last couple of months taken by Bob Barnes who is the Aviation Officer for S.E. Idaho inter-agency fire.
This is what happens when someone leaves the ignitors on for a cleanout barrel:
And here is me and my crew, real people, real fires, non-pro pictures:
