Firespotters necessary?

[desksgo]

However, it's a small price to pay in exchange for 300 Multi-PIC and a step closer to the 'glory' of one day walking through Terminal 2 with bananas on your shoulders and a 'rolly-bag' tagging behind you.

Hey but what do I know....I'm livin' the dream.

Actually, about that dream. I'm forming a team of 7 computer super geeks and will be putting two of these aircraft at every base. My super geeks versus your.....airplane drivers. You had better not be thinking of lighting a (s)moke within 100nm of our flight path. We'll have a bomber on you like a fat kid on a smartie.



Naturally, this won't make rampies and airplane detailing technicians obsolete.

[...]

Next contract bid...

[flyinhigh]

Firstly, I say yes fire patrols are great, first if I am at 10,000 feet I know I am not going to see a fire and if I do than it is going to be to late the fire is huge.

However, what I find frickin dumb is as previously mentioned, the mnr comes and gives the maps out to commerical operators with there little protractor. Now you see a fire they excpect you to pull out the map with this goofy protractor, plot it all out and give the there lat and longs,
Sorry if I find a fire, I'll call it in, using the lat and longs off the GPS and the people at the MNR can figure it out, the numbers I give them they'll have it figured out in 2 minutes anyway.
And if you do call one in, they have all this information that you have to fill out.
The last fire I reported I got home and had the MNR calling me at home that night wanting more info, give me a break, I'll tell you what I know on the radio, I can't add anything else to it later so come on.

It is this process that makes me actually think twice about calling in a fire, however I always will though.....

End of my rant