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Originally Posted by Skytrooper
While not a pilot, I was a UH-1H crew chief. I have preformed hundreds of fire bucket drops. Yup, hundreds. My best day was 103 drops , that fire was only 1.5 minutes from the mountain pond we dipped out of. I was also the aircrew and fire bucket trainer (FE/SI).
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That is so great...flying with a purpose is the best flying we ever do.
In the H-60, to answer Toby's post, the aircrewman would lie flat and look through the hook port.
The video below is neat. I can say as an OOD Underway, having done UNREPS like the video, it is much harder to drive the ship and maintain position that it is to VERTREP.