On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:27:05AM -0500, Legatus wrote:
You know air water drops as a means of fire suppression is not generally effective. They are often used simply as a very expensive (sometimes at the cost of pilots life) PR method. People think that is what they should see, so that is what they are given. Not to say that they don't have a place, just that most of the time, they are for show, while all the real firefighting still happens on the ground.
They sure looked effective at last weekends brush fire in Sorrento Valley. While the ground firefighters were struggling just to get up the side of the hill to where the fire even was, the helicopters seemed to manage to get most of it out. Although I agree that they looked extremely dangerous for the pilots. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
