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Mills rd Fire, helitac's in action
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:24 pm
by Helitak_670
Re: Mills rd Fire, helitac's in action
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:31 pm
by Fastlane
not the best!? Don't often see them that good.. well done!
Re: Mills rd Fire, helitac's in action
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:35 pm
by Tyranus
Fastlane wrote:not the best!? Don't often see them that good.. well done!
Agreed well done mate.
Re: Mills rd Fire, helitac's in action
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:43 pm
by meg
Fantastic shots - thanks for posting them!
Re: Mills rd Fire, helitac's in action
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 6:13 pm
by written_ficton
Nice pictures.
Re: Mills rd Fire, helitac's in action
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 6:15 pm
by Tyranus
wow didn't know they had a number on top...makes sense
Re: Mills rd Fire, helitac's in action
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 8:37 pm
by Helitak_670
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.
Re: Mills rd Fire, helitac's in action
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:46 pm
by Tyranus
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.
Re: Mills rd Fire, helitac's in action
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:55 pm
by WPXZBP
For FESA appliances/vehicles it's the SELCALL number, for WAPol it's their callsign.
Re: Mills rd Fire, helitac's in action
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:19 am
by dlcat1
They are incredibly good photos, not often you see them caught working at a big one like that.
Re: Mills rd Fire, helitac's in action
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:44 pm
by BuddahFRS
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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Re: Mills rd Fire, helitac's in action
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:51 pm
by Ausrob
Good work when are the choppers due to leave this year?
Re: Mills rd Fire, helitac's in action
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:49 pm
by Tyranus
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.
Re: Mills rd Fire, helitac's in action
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:37 pm
by dlcat1
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.
Re: Mills rd Fire, helitac's in action
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:17 am
by Fastlane
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).
