Mills rd Fire, helitac's in action

Helitak_670 · Post by **Helitak_670** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:24 pm

Here are my pics. Not the best as I was taking them from a long distance away.
Oh all pics are at a greatly reduced quality to load faster.

Fastlane · Post by **Fastlane** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:31 pm

not the best!? Don't often see them that good.. well done!

Post by **Tyranus** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:35 pm

Fastlane wrote:not the best!? Don't often see them that good.. well done!

Agreed well done mate.

Post by **meg** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:43 pm

Fantastic shots - thanks for posting them!

written_ficton · Post by **written_ficton** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 6:13 pm

Nice pictures.

Post by **Tyranus** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 6:15 pm

wow didn't know they had a number on top...makes sense

Helitak_670 · Post by **Helitak_670** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 8:37 pm

Cheers, The numbers on top are used for Air Intel, and also Air Recce. Bit hard to see the numbers on the side when your a lot higher than the helitac's.

Post by **Tyranus** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:46 pm

yeah gathered that, probably should have pointed out the reasoning though for the members that didn't understand...it's the same reason why appliances have the vehicle number on the roof so as to be seen by the choppers.

WPXZBP · Post by **WPXZBP** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:55 pm

For FESA appliances/vehicles it's the SELCALL number, for WAPol it's their callsign.

dlcat1 · Post by **dlcat1** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:19 am

They are incredibly good photos, not often you see them caught working at a big one like that.

BuddahFRS · Post by **BuddahFRS** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:44 pm

far out mate, if these ant ya best, i wouldnt mind seeing ya best, as yeah these are bloody top shots mate, well done
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Ausrob · Post by **Ausrob** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:51 pm

Good work when are the choppers due to leave this year?

Post by **Tyranus** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:49 pm

2 days time...though with the shire of Mundaring and City of Swan extending the burning prohibited times till the 30th of April FESA may choose to extend the contract for between the 16th to the 30th to continue the zone 2 response.

dlcat1 · Post by **dlcat1** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:37 pm

Tyranus wrote:2 days time...though with the shire of Mundaring and City of Swan extending the burning prohibited times till the 30th of April FESA may choose to extend the contract for between the 16th to the 30th to continue the zone 2 response.

Might depend on whether they have somewhere else lined up? US is having a few big fires right now. Sort of early for them.

Fastlane · Post by **Fastlane** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:17 am

dlcat1 wrote:
Tyranus wrote:2 days time...though with the shire of Mundaring and City of Swan extending the burning prohibited times till the 30th of April FESA may choose to extend the contract for between the 16th to the 30th to continue the zone 2 response.
Might depend on whether they have somewhere else lined up? US is having a few big fires right now. Sort of early for them.

I doubt they'd go that far overseas. The B3's aren't exactly 'rare' aircraft. I'd say they will resume their other life as charter aircraft (with the belly tanks removed).

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