RENO 2016 We’d like to thank all the presenters and participants who attended the annual AAF Reno meeting. Unlike Las Vegas we like to share what happens in Reno. Our objective is to provide a venue for an exchange of ideas and information … [Read more...]
What happens in Reno?
October 18, 2015 By Leave a Comment
For a good time come to Reno for the AAF annual meeting. And while you’re there- You can learn why 52 pilots and 80 mechanics working for Cal Fire are smiling. You can have free cocktails. Be with people willing to listen to you and tell … [Read more...]
Monday Morning
October 18, 2015 By Leave a Comment
It’s been a busy summer. I’m flying an OV-10 Air Attack and staying marginally proficient with occasional flights in the S-2T. It’s been thirty-four years since I flew Air Attack and it has changed a bit. I went to work in April but it was July … [Read more...]
USFS Next Gen RFP summer 2014
April 23, 2014 By 1 Comment
https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USDA/FS/024B/SN-2014-03/listing.html … [Read more...]
Tony Morris, As I See It
December 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
BOMBARDIER 415 U.S. FOREST SERVICE AS I SEE IT TONY MORRIS In 1988 our family moved from Santa Monica to a house in the Fernwood neighborhood of Topanga. Wildfires have burned in Topanga for centuries. Native … [Read more...]
Interview with Rich Briggs-Lockheed Martin
October 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
DATE: 10-15-13 FROM: TONY MORRIS –“As I See It” www.airtanker.org ASSOCIATED AERIAL FIREFIGHTERS TO: RICH BRIGGS – LOCKHEED MARTIN SUBJECT: C-130 XJ FOR AERIAL … [Read more...]
The Fed Side
May 11, 2013 By 1 Comment
Lead Planes We take a lot of things for granted in our world. In 2004 most of the federal pilots flying large airtankers in the U.S. took their jobs for granted until a fax appeared at the offices of the various contractors saying their contracts … [Read more...]
The Fed Side
April 24, 2013 By 2 Comments
Near Miss How do you write about a near miss? Let’s see; there I was. No, that’s been done before. How about just the facts. Well, there we were. Lowell had just called V1 so we were committed to fly when I saw the glider. It appeared from the … [Read more...]
The Fed Side III
April 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
It’s February 2013 and tanker 48 is back on-the-job. We’re currently hanging in Porterville where I’m trying to reconstruct the balance of last season. It’s like déjà vous all over again; as I recall we left Casper Wyoming July 30th and headed to our … [Read more...]
The Fed Side, part II
March 22, 2013 By 1 Comment
We found work in Billings in June. The place to stay is The Crown Plaza. They give you a smokin’ deal on rooms if you work for the Forest Service. It’s a high rise, twenty-two floors. Last year a guy threw a chair through the window of his tenth … [Read more...]
