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Originally Posted by MOSTAFA
Surely a job for a Billy Pugh on a winch or even the hook - might scare them fartless but I'd guess they'd have preferred the option - and yes maybe they couldn't get to the roof after the fire took hold but surely a muster on the roof before it did would at least be an option.
Really before the fire builds to a conflagration on all corners of the building, is a light single perhaps boosted with an AFCS, dual belly hooks and billy pugh with remote loud hailer not sufficient for the task?
The right pilots obviously being the most important key to the whole operation. Ones with extensive (thousands of hrs) and current practice in vertical reference flying. Perhaps moonlighting periodically from his/her real job logging, power line, mountain rescue, seismic, (forest fire work being a given)etc etc. People who know and operate consistently to the ultimate limits of the machinery, allowed to use their own discretion to the possibilities versus the bureaucratic channels and risk assessment algorithms and matrices so lauded by folks trying to keep up appearances. Hey isn't that the whole point of self deployment?
Ah yes and then I woke up! Rescue work + government = nothing but vicious politics.
Question is? Who ends up getting screwed because of it?
A cunning linguist would define CASTRATION as the CAST(trap) of excessive regulation, politics and bureaucratic STRATA. Have our best efforts to provide the utmost aerial capability been castrated and hamstrung by obedience to political structure and protocol?
Maybe add a pair of rubber "choppersticles" to supplement the cargo hooks?
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