Originally Posted by
havick
SBAKER, have you personally flown in both Australia and the US on fires? Your posts indicate that you haven't.
Nope. I was just suggesting that we utilise assets we already have. - and not have to pay extra for personel when you have ADF members that can be trained to do the task... You know we are already paying the RAAF for the C130 and crew wether it flies or not.. surely it would not be hard to buy 2 modules and have one on standby/alert during fire season...
You know why go and spend a crap load to get private overseas companies for the large water bombers when you could do the same here in-house without that much ADDED cost (compared to overseas large water bomber contractors).