View Single Post
Seahawk Seahawk is offline
Registered
 
Seahawk's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Maryland
Posts: 31,780
Quote:
Originally Posted by Skytrooper View Post
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).
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.

__________________
1996 FJ80.
Old 08-16-2024, 11:54 AM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #12 (permalink)