Daveroo
July 2nd, 2013, 19:43
satellite view of the Doce fire burn scar with visible retardant lines.its a good visual for anyone here in SOH into flying air tankers on how to "fly a fire" correctly.Drop pattern wise anyway,id posted a schematic some time back about how they build line from the heal up the flanks and turn the head and cut it off.in this image you can see they went up the left flank and hooked the head to the right,with some retardant laid down up near the head on the right flank hooking the head to left tying it all in.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81476&src=eoa-iotd
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81476&src=eoa-iotd