Aerial Fire Fighting North American Conference (PartI) Interviews with Conair/Aeroflite
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มี.ค. 2020
- A great interview with my old USFS Lead Plane Instructor and now Chief Pilot for Aeroflite/Conair at the bi-annual AFFNA conference at McClellan Field on the current state of the Aerial Firefighting industry. Special thanks to Olga of Tangentlink for hosting this event!
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Those flyboys saved my mountain property in Northern Utah two years ago. Fire was coming over the ridge and down the mountain right above it and those guys showed up and stopped it cold. Thought my property was going to be gone, but nope. Retardant from the planes and water drops from the helos saved it all. These folks are heroes in my book.
I worked with, drank with, argued with, and was administratively saved by Mike over about decade back in the day. Good to see he is healthy and appears happy. One of those "I didn't know he was still alive" moments. Thanks Juan
This Mike Lynn interview is one of the best I've ever seen. His ideas make sense. This guy is so good at explaining things that I did not skip through any of it. Thanks Juan, very few interviewers let guys like this talk and only cut in to add information and context for the audience.
msnpassjan2004 I’ll second that! On nearly every interview, I am screaming, “let the person finish” unless it’s a politician.
As an ex Australian fire fighter, I worry that all the resources are pushed towards solely aerial fire fighting, and the extra pressure applied to you guys to do the work, thank you for this great insite to how it all works as has come about, this gives me an even greater appreciation of what you guys have to do, Well done and thanks
Mike Lynn, what a gem to have in aerial firefighting. He is a wealth of knowledge and management expertise.
Respect - Cheers from Australia.
Wow that was great! Con Air is lucky to have this man, very wise, glad he has come out of retirement to enjoy his aviation passion and pass along his experience and insight to no doubt make aerial fire fighting safer and therefore save lives. Love Spokane spent a lot of time there in the 60`s + 70`s ,they used to call the area "panorama land"
Another great interview with a externally qualified pilot in his expertise. I’m surprised they didn’t look for crews from the Navy P-3 community. CRM was the standard for operations going back to the early 70’s. Pilot fly’s heading and altitude and makes the drop, flight engineer controls airspeed with power levers and copilot sets flaps and backs up all operations. Then we dropped all of our weapons. We did have a full crew in the tube but they we along for the ride! Lol
Slightly peeved that there is no credit for the piano version of S&G's Old Friends. Such a lovely and fitting piece for people who have obviously worn their own personal gears smooth and now have respect and love for each other.
Juan,
Thank you this video. Much respect to these pilots/crews - we are going to need them more and more in the future.
God bless
Paul (in MA)
Bring back a lot of good memories. I was allowed to call in a DC-10 team on a fire. I was protecting my men and women.
I was on command post protection duty at the time. No Pressure like an IMT Agent, A Chief of Operations, two Battalion Chiefs, and a tribal Chief watching your every move.
Perfect music to end that with, Juan. The two of you definitely have some stories to share!
Mike seems like a very practical and considerate person. He'd make a good boss to have.
I used to go to McClellan for federal law enforcement officers meetings. We'd share information among the various agencies.
Now that is the way to do a technical interview. Superb and with lots of detail.
Great video! You are in your element talking to those pilots! It shows.....your demeanor completely changes from your regular videos!!! Thank you for sharing your inside connections to the pilot world!!! You rock! Your former instructor was awesome too!!!!
Meeting old friends, pilots, and instructors! What a great interview. I'm smiling so big. Thanks for sharing.
lol love the greennewdeal dig
I miss the old Forest Service guys and gals!
Are you not a supporter of the Green Nude Eel?
What a great interview, Juan! Fantastic photos, and amazing equipment they have now, too! Can't wait to see what you've got for part 2. 👍
I've never been more excited for a video series. Thanks, Juan for all of your great reporting & journalism.
With all the shifting winds and terrain, seems it would be like flying a roller coaster without a track. Huge respect for the folks that take on those missions.
Excellent, Juan. Thank you.
Michael Dougfir,
Old Forest Service Guy
Heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to aerial firefighters combatting wildfires worldwide. An inspiration for commercial aviation pilots to explore new avenues and horizons in aerial firefighting.
JUAN, GREAT INTERVIEW, now I had zero idea of using BAE146 s for this duty, but the DH6. now Q400, ever since BOMBADIER Owned the model, they have been suffering LANDING GEAR COLAPSES
FOR THE CREW IN AUSTRALIA,,, RIP ,, STAY WELL & SAFE, CHEERS FROM NJ. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Hey Juan! Cool Show! It must be Fun to Be A Firefighting Pilot. Low Elevation Hand Flying. I remember last year spending the day watching the action last year around the LA Fires. I’m From Montana & Now Idaho. I’ve got to spend some time with several Smoke Jumper Crews. American Indians are really Proud of their Legacy as firefighters. Great Show Today! Thnx; CJ
I believe Juan has First Nations heritage.
Thank you - very much looking forward to the next in this series. DC-10 Tanker 912 is still in Australia and in Canberra. I’ve seen it a few times in February and March. Was fortunate today to see it closer up during taxi, and take-off and land! 👏🏻 It was doing low-altitude manoeuvres with a C525. The fires are all out here in south-eastern Australia thanks to decent rainfalls. 💦 12:25 The Q400MR - would love to see these operating. The description here was well explained for the uninitiated like myself. Thank you to all aerial firefighters for your service in Australia during 2019/2020. 🔥
Such a competent and kind bunch of people. Thumbs up guys.
Thanks for posting this, Juan. It was great to see Mike Lynn, Dennis Hulbert, and Danny Johnson. Hope you have more to come with DH and DJ. You and I crossed career paths at Mather way back when. I was in the USFS-R5 helicopter program. Best wishes for your future aviation career.
Thanks Greg!
Juan, thanks for this. I am in the UK so not much call for this kind of flying. I am so appreciative of the way you explain acronyms, I work for a software company where acronyms are tossed around with no explanation. The way you ensure everyone understands is exemplary. Oh, and thanks for sending everyone to Jerry at Big Jet TV. Can't wait for you two to hook up.
The procedure he's talking about where the captain relinquishes the engine controls to the co-pilot during the drop, is exactly how a DC-6 is flown, with a flight engineer.
Great job JB! A pleasure to listen to a guy like Mike L.
Thank you for another awesome important educational interview video by The Mighty Juan Browne
Nice video Juan. Good people to be associated with . Thanks
Conair is a major supplier to the province of BC, Canada. In the next few years you will see Conair running L188s, RJ85s, Q400s, CV580s, and AT802 amphibious out of British Columbia. They are bird-dogged by TurboCommanders (695 or 1000) or Cessna C208s. A very nice fleet.
From the interview I can see that there is going to be a big hole to fill when Mike leaves the helm, hope they are looking for or having someone beside him listening to his every word for the future.
Thanks Juan, very informative. Really appreciate your efforts!
Juan it was like two old friends talking about flying. Great video. Bookends at the end was very nice.
Love watching Aeroflite aircrafts fly in and out of Spokane
Just started watching your videos . . . and your passion for "Air-Fire-Fighting" is pretty dang obvious !!
Wow... Mike Lynn my old neighbor here in Leona Valley. Nice guy and please pass on my regards to him.
Thx, Duncan
Very nicely done. The wait was worth it. Imagine the experience there. I learned and for that I am grateful. Thank you
Great interview looking at some of the internal operations of the air tanker industry. I look foward to the rest of the series.
Sounds like a good plan coming together, our butts were saved couple yrs ago the Oilfield rd.fire in NE Nv.
Lost some homes coulda been ALOT WORSE..special thanks to ALL..
Another example, Juan, of your fine work.
During this forced hiatus from your accustomed flight schedule, you have reinforced other skills, gained experience, made such good use of existing and new contacts, and done some equipment acquisition. When you return to flight (may it be soon!), all that you have acquired will remain as a resource for you going forward.
It's been a pleasure to sit in on all that you present. So very well done.
Will watch several more times, taking it all in. Great interview Juan.
So good to see my friend Mike!
Super guy, great interview!!! Thank you for doing what you do, now get back in that 777.
Mike Lynn explains technical aspects very well. He must be a very good instructor.
That’s Weird. Never seen my comment come up twice. I’m Really Enjoying “Big Jet TV” Thnx to You!!!! Really Fun to see your excitement watching it. Please Continue occasionally when conditions get difficult. EASY SON!!!!! Ehhh eh!! Thnx, CJ
You guys are legends! Awesome vlog. Thanks so much!
Sounds like it would be a difficult task to go from auto to manual and have to hit the mark at the same time. Kudos to them for crafting a procedure. I dont know crap about about flying besides what I learn on here. Good entertainment thanks a bunch
Virtually every airliner landing is done the same way. The only difference is the Aeroflite / Conair pilots aren't landing.
Great interview, with a ton of interesting info from Mike - thanks Juan!
I just love how far you have come Juan, Sky's the limit friend. Every closed door, another opens.
Juan, you’re a lucky man - you know some truly great people!
Excellent interview. Your aviation reporting is the very best.
This interview is so informative thanks for sharing. A news network would botch it up and with inaccurate reporting.
Glad you put faces on the planes we see on there way to a drop. Great Guy's and a few Gals.
Thanks for reminding me of Catch 22. What an excellent book.
I have just 4 words for you . . .
Major Major Major Major.
I read Catch-22 on the plane enroute to S. Vietnam in 1967. Definitely helped me prepare for the experience. Myself, I was a victim of Catch-23. Twice no less.
Man, I would love to get into the air tanker business. I need to get me a pilot's license and start working on ratings and hours.
Thank you! 🙏
Excellent content. Thank You for sharing...
Great interview Juan, can't wait for part two
Salute to you all.
Malcolm from Oakland
Special Thanks to James Good of 'Ercoupe TV' You Tube Channel for hauling me around (and putting up with me) this day. He's got a great video of our flight in is 1946 Ercoupe here- th-cam.com/video/Xo1RLlaCpQs/w-d-xo.html check it out!
Great Ground Referenced Maneuvering practice. yep, with winds and fires too. Low and Slow GRM. The Real no BS GRM.
That was a great interview! I am looking forward to the rest of the coverage of the conference. Firefighters of any type are heroes, but those who fly, they indeed are a rare and special breed. So, too are the planes that they fly. The De Havilland Canada DHC-8 Q400 your friend mentioned is a direct descendant of the famous bush planes the DHC-3 Beaver and the DHC-3 Otter. I am very happy that Viking Air bought all the type certificates from Bombardier where they had languished for decades when the need for fire fighting aircraft has been growing. Viking also bought the type certificates for the Canadair CL-215, and CL-415 from Bombardier. They recently announced the latest upgrade to that series, the CL-515, which will help Viking become one of the powerhouses of fighter fighting aircraft today.
I agree, as an AME I have heard that Viking is a very well managed company and their employees love working there.
@@bruceavis1610 I am glad to hear that. Bombardier made the classic mistake of growing too fast, and too diversified, and now, they almost don't exist anymore. Their founder invented the Ski-Doo...but building airplanes and subway cars and the like was too many areas of expertise to keep track of. Viking has some of the crown jewels of Canadian Aviation history, and I wish them all the luck and success in the world.
Excellent content Juan!!...great job...with the fire fighters culture...I'm horribly sad I can't contribute to the cause..monetarily...if my ship comes in you will be the first to know...I love your channel!! 😊 great dedication man!...I appreciate you....
Appropriate theme song at the end. Great interview.
Mike is one sharp pilot, appreciate his insights to keep pilots safe.
Good Stuff..... I remember the good old AeroUnion days..........
Once again, Juan, thank you from the bottom of my aviation-loving heart!
Really enjoyed this video, that Mike Lynn is the real deal. Good to see him in this position.
Great job Juan
Awesome interview, thanks for the videos Juan.
Shoot, had I known about this conference I would have attended! Next time!
Wonderful interview ... we can feel the love! I've spoken with some Canadians who claim that the red fire retardant is affecting their ground water ... any info on a change to the formula and materials?
It's not just a "Canadian" concern. Steps have been taken to try and only use the retardant, which is basically a fertilizer mixture, in areas away from known waterways, or to be used when people are in danger. The red dye is for visibility so a pilot can see where it has been, or has not been dropped. The mixtures don't vary much from one another and so far, nothing else has been found to work better, or have any lesser consequential effects. But people have to realize that sometimes there is not much choice. It's either slow the fire so ground crews can come in to battle the fire, or lose communities and possibly people's lives. Nothing is perfect, but it beats being burned to death.
I love the intro with the music Juan. You're a magician with this stuff!
Very interesting, thanks!
Excellent!
Excellent interview. This is information that anyone who lives in a wildfire prone area should know. Aerial fire fighting looks glamorous and hero like but it is a very stressful and dangerous job. I always learn something new from the blancolirio world headquarters.
Very good information go Juan
I’m not a pilot, but you put out such interesting info, I’m hooked!
Amazing 👍
This is awesome!
Great insight
As an aircraft engineer with experience on c130s B737 little on the avro would love to retire up in Spokane and carry in working in the flying trucks C130
WOW TKS MY FRIEND REALLY INTERESTING INFORMATION TAKE CARE
Awesome
Loved this video
Good job Juan❤😊
Good interview. Good to learn about it. The Q400 sounds like it will be successful. Hope the best for all of you this next summer and fall.
Good stuff!
Great video as usual, Juan, but as a kind of side note, I found some of those photos of former aircraft both wrecked and ready to be fascenating. I want to know more! There's probably several books could be written, or You Tube videos about who they were, where they found the aircraft, what mods they did to them, and what caused their demise. You are a part of a very rich heritage of aviation that has moved on to deal with very dynamic situations with SOP's. Keep bringing it on!
Good idea!
There should be a comprehensive study of the industry to support safety initiatives.
Now I want to be a fire fighter pilot.
Just a throwaway observation here.
It threw me hearing the announcer's English accent over the tannoy at 19:12.
Anyone else spot that?
Great content, of course...
I think a lot of us might overlook you guys as "just" pilots. But ya'll are definitely firefighters, too.
At 3 minutes 15 seconds, I do believe that's a PB 4 y
Juan Browne,
Did I detect a job search here?
Super cool :)
Comment from a senior manager non flyer...on control you will doubtless set a timely process that actually reviews the SOPs to ensure their ongoing effectiveness.
I'm surprised he didn't mention the structural performance capabilities of the Q-400 as represented by the sad event where a ground crewman took one for a joyride in Seattle and did a looping-barrel roll with a diving pullout.
This is really great Juan. Good report! Appreciate hearing it from the folks doing the heavy lifting! Did you fly a Baron as a lead? Can't wait for the next episode(s)... BTW the old photos of the early days were really interesting--Avengers and a Black Widow! Wow!