Fighting Fires in Tasmania with Helicopters
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- A little insight and perspective into the wonderful world of Aerial Fire Fighting with Helicopters in Tasmania, Australia.
On this day we had a small fire pop up in someones backyard only 3 miles from our fire base.
We used a 214ST and a 214B to calm down the flames to buy the crews on the ground some more time.
The 214's both have belly tanks which make them perfect for fires in urban environments.
the whole exercise only took around 40 minutes from skids up to skids down.
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Great vid. I am going to show it to new firefighters. A great example of how effective aircraft are and the importance of ground crews being aware of aircraft. Very professional in spotting the ground crews and working with them to achieve a great outcome. As a firefighter (VIC) on the ground, it is always a welcoming sight to see/hear a Helitak knowing how competent the crews are and their concern for my safety.
I'm surprised they used helicopters on such a small fire. Isn't a fire of that size something that can be dealt with by ground units without air support?
@@brodricj3023 The fire was on a hot windy day. there where numerous homes under threat without the aircraft it would of been gone out of control
as a firefighter form NZ its really really good to see this sort of work from the heli pilots it's an amazing show of how you pilots work together and work along side the ground units
Enjoyed hearing the radio work on this!
Keep these videos coming! Bloody Awesome!!!
I was working in the Regional Operations Centre during this. I remember this day very well and the additional stress this fire caused being so close to homes! but all my contingency planning was for naught as the second your machines turned up it seemed the fire was out as sooner then it started. Incredible to be able to get your perspective from it! Keep up the great work!
Those 214s make it look easy
Have to say over this fire season, you and the whole team absolutely smashed it. Both time for the fires at Pelverata, it was impressive to watch, and the response time, very reassuring. Thanks for the hard work
Jim
Already had a mad appreciation for you blokes, getting to work underneath you on the fire ground But this video has made that appreciation a lot bigger. Thanks for sharing ❤️🚒❤️🚒
Thanks for being here, we would.all be stuffed without you....thanks for your hard work guys and gals, I was at a mates when this happened few months ago he was stressing and he's in Acton park too.....great work love from Hobart 👍
Awesome, thanks for sharing! We are in Tassie and have seen the rapid aerial response to fires, amazing! This is almost as good as a ride-along :)
Thank you what a great video. What a dream it would be to live where you do. Eastern Canada sucks.
AIUI, they're crying for pilots in the NWT and the North. You'd have to move away from Eastern Canada, though...
I saw about 8 of you guys flying over Nicholls rivulet at last light one night about a fortnight ago….. you looked pretty cool👍 many thanks to you all for what you do, we do appreciate it…… there’s a couple of stubbies in the fridge for you next time 😉😉
this is fucking awesome mate, having been ground crew working with helis this gives a great insight as to why the pilots don’t respond straight away sometimes
Great to see how it all works from the inside. I saw the alert and with the conditions thought it could go to shite but was surprised to see it knocked over quickly, now I know how!
Hey Darcy, just found your channel. Good stuff! I am and Aircraft Engineer and A+P in Victoria Oz, and also an IC with CFA. Was a bit surprised to find the Helitaks and the Firebird mixing the same altitude? normally 500' separation? Great stuff, keep up the great work!
Awesome stuff. Great video darc.
I was playing disc golf in Hobart on this day i believe. We could see the smoke then the choppers. Nice work.
Awesome! from a Tasmainian who has watched you guys from the ground amazing seeing it from your point of view. loved it,
I agree, my brother shared this and it is very cool insight to see.
I live between Jandakot and the Perth hills regularly get helitaks flying over to do their thing. I really aught to get my scanner out one day and see if I can tune in, the radio chatter was really interesting. I could see at least 4 radios there, I think a GME and a Tait, worked on both of them. being more domestic radios, Id imagine they are for communicating with the ground crew? for comms between the 3 choppers, are they just standard air band channels or do you have a private allocation? does anyone have any pointers on what frequencies to poke around on?
Ive had my house under threat twice and my workplace once, its a real honour to see your work up close and personal. love your work.
Excellent mate, cheers and stay safe from Griffith Airport 👍🏽
PPL here. That looked busy
Worked on the ground underneath you! was a good year hopefully there is a part 2 with more of the midlands fires and the log fire at Brighton
Thanks mate! sorry i wasnt smart enough to take the gopros with me on the midland fire! we didnt have much to do with the Brighton fire that day either
@@bushpiloting Are you going to be back in tassie next season? if so film ALL of them
Great video.... good work guys
Awesome job Darcy. Tasmania looks dry. This was my first year doing Air Attack same as you but no tasks. Maybe next year. See you in the sky sometime ;)
awesome work. we have the air attack supervisor here in South Aus to, kinda interesting to see what goes on up there. kinda curious what the Hazard controller does tho!
The Hazard controller is for the siren, it is used to warn ground crews of in bound helicopters before doing a water dump.
Ahhh so it’s just got a siren. No red and blues?
wait you didnt fly with a bucket? Why don't command/advisory aircraft carry their own bucket as well?
Very nice video, and great work. I was wondering how you ended up where you are? How'd you end up flying fires, because it is something I myself am very passionate about. I am also thinking about going and getting my CPL(H) and would love to end up doing this kind of work. Also, what path did you go down to obtain your license? Thanks
Hey dude, to fight fires in Aus you need 1500 total time, and 100 on type (or similar). So usually you would start off building hours doing some other job before trying to get into the utility side of things. For me, it was tourism, I did that for 4 years before I got to put on bucket
What kind of helmet, do you wear I love it
Hey man, it’s the AV-1 KOR by lift aviation USA. I got it recently and has been a pleasure to work with
I have seen them on some machines but not very many. Weight is everything on a helicopter.
Excuse my language, That was fucking sick! I hope and I'm sure they are, that the homeowners are appreciative. If that was one of my properties I would have invited you all around for a drink and a BBQ. Hats off to all involved 👍
Firie from Victoria can I ask what with the Code 3 Controller on the dash?
Its for When its configured to have a bucket, The siren is used to alert GC for an incoming drop
love your work you guys need a pay rise
FLI on the fritz?
negative. i don't like using the FLI screen, i prefer seeing the Ng, Tq and T4 separately
@@bushpiloting fair 'nough, either way is valid. It underlines what you're hitting when you get close and lets you do beer math in % in your head. (i.e. I'm at .9 FLI, I have 10% left regardless if its temps, ng, or torque)
First time seeing from your point of view... Plenty watching from the ground in WA... Church got it wrong .... Angels fly helitacs and fixwing waterbombers
FYI: HeliTak are firefighting attack choppers. FireBirds (what you were for vid) are aerial observers. Good video though, been working under and withthose birds before (430 & 425).
Fyi, both helitacks and Firebirds can be water bombing aircraft, the video is of the air attack supervisor platform who communicates with both ground crews and water bombing aircraft Which was Firebird 742.... Above them was the air observer platform providing all the Intel back to the IMT... 😉
@@adrianpetrie4991 When we call for firebirds or birddogs, we want eyes in the sky. Yes, some firebirds can hook on a bambi but when they only moving hundreds of litres each drop, not much good. Years of expirience teaches that.
Here in this video, there was no coordination with grounds and no IMT. Rural crew first on scene followed by a urban when the job was nearly done. There was certainly no-one above 742.
Hey ben. There was plenty of comms with the crews on the ground, just not by me, but by the fella with the white helmet. I just had those radios muted for me, (which is what the video audio picks up,) because it's unnecessary noise and clutter that i don't need to deal with. I would just liaise with other aircraft and tower.
@@bushpiloting Yeah, going on what you aired on vid. As for the job, was only a little one, ones I am used to are orders of magnitude bigger.
I passed you vid around some people with connections to training, you might get some contact as it was pretty good for not just new-comers to firefighting but even the seasoned ones who have little or no interaction with air assets. Even for the armchair "ExSpurts"
tasmania has contracted helitaks and all year we have fire birds for bombing
Did you only do hobart
Yeah just Hobart and a couple of weeks in Vic earlier in the season
You don't know tassie if you think 29 is hot , this year was way below a normal year for rain and temperature
29 is hot when theres 60km of wind
what's up with your AH? looks a little sick.
Yeah wasn’t turned on for obvious reasons
@@bushpiloting interesting, I take it it’s a elec AH. Love the vid by the way
Attitude indicator's on the piss mate
It wasn’t necessary
Loved watching this. Very interesting. I live not far from this fire and I thank you and the ground crews for controlling this fire so efficiently. Great job everyone.
I didn’t expect this to pop up in my feed… at one point I was in Acton Drive about 300 metres from the helicopters as they dropped. It was the 19th of March. It was very impressive to me!
I spy a hazard systems/code 3 siren controller!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how neat for a heli to have a siren
Looks like a squirrel heli AH125
Rocksy the rockstar. I’ve worked with him, legend. Awesome vid mate
Love your work. One of you guys saved my home, I was very impressed how it was done looking from the ground. How does the helicopter fly around in the smoke? I would imagine the engine needs oxygen to work. I live in St Helens Tasmania.
The helicopter flys in smoke just as it would clean air, it’s just harder to see through
Nice video.
What about the attitude indicator or also known as artificial horizon?
Great footage mate! Can’t wait to see more! Thanks for sharing with us and safe flying 🍻
your channel and job is fucking sick man, i NEED more vids like this, fighting fire next to structures and coordinating water drops, damn so bad ass, would loove to see more of everything you do! new sub forsure man keep getting after i!
Im pretty sure ive had that UH1 fly over me a bunch of times dropping on a fire nearby. Classic distinct sound. also, loved the vid! keep them coming! Subscribed!!
Best TH-cam channel I have found... Love it. Keep them coming
Impressive work, especially with all that hot unstable air about!
Grate vid. As a cadet is the tas fire service. Im loving the vid. Would love to see more of this!!
How do you end up in a position like this? I think my dream job is to a be a rescue heli pilot, helitak would be sick too. I've just always presumed you'd have to be an ex-navy pilot to stand a chance...
You just need a heli CPL and then you would contact the relevent company, eg in tassie for rescue you would contact rotorlift and for fire you would contact mc dermott, rotorlift, heli resources, tasmania helicopers, or osborn aviation
wicked man
Awesome stuff
Great video
Yo is this at hobart airport?
Cambridge, Just across the road from hobart international
@@bushpiloting nice, i used to be in the tas fire service cadets and this stuff is amazing to watch. 👍
awesome perspective, would love to know how the lift aviation helmet is working for you on fires
The bucket is so bloody comfortable! Unfortunately the lends already has some scratches on it (from the lens cover too, which im not too stoke about)
Hi Darcy, were you in Maryborough Qld the last year or two, on standby for forests? Not sure if it was you I said gidday too.
Naaa mate not me
@@bushpiloting Ok no worries - I'll still watch your channel
How do you find the LIFT Helmet?
yeah man comfy as. unfortunate that it has no size adjustments tho, so you HAVE to get the measurements right when you order it.
Any insight into getting hired by McDermott's? I've got thousands of PIC hours on Bell mediums and they just don't reply to my email or calls.
I wish I knew mate hahah
@@bushpiloting Yeah, no choice but to go and get my NVIS G1. More opportunities with that tick in the box.