Someone was flying a drone over the LA fires and it hit a Canadian Super Scooper plane n loan, so now the plane is grounded for at least three days.
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Random Griz Aviation Musings
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HC-85 was SCORE and was a Reserve squadron. I believe they were right next to HCS-5, if my mind's eye is remembering correctly. They would fly the H-3, flying log runs and pick up torps out at San Clemente. When HCS-5 disestablished, HC-85 eventually became HSC-85 and picked up the SOF support mission. The HC-85 guys bounced around a bit but eventually landed at HSC-21 as an additional Reserve UIC.
No surprise to anyone, HSC-21 didn't play nice with the reservists and started taking the flight hours and giving it to its AC pilots which pretty much pissed off everyone from CNAFR all the way down to the SELRES trying to get their mins.
With HS-10 disestablishing and getting sucked up to HSC-3, the HS-10 SAU closed shop and they moved SCORE over to HSC-3 as a sister UIC to the HSC-3 SAU.
My info on where SCORE is now is pretty time-late, but the last place I knew it was was still at HSC-3.
A Romeo is ~$37 million. I take your point, but that's still a significantly cheaper option, and not operating at $4,000+/flight hour (or whatever it is now...I think it was ~$3,000 when I retired).
I have no idea, but if I had to guess, ISR, possibly command and control of the other Navy assets with the radar (probably doubtful, since the fire guys already have their own FACs), and if it's trucked out, it can still lift ~2,000 pounds (240 gallons) of water with a reduced fuel load. That last one doesn't seem like very much to me, but I guess if 407's help with fires, maybe it's on par.
Well we all know that ALL the Part 107 UAS "pilots" have the same understanding and respect for airspace and TFRs as us mere military and FAA certificated Pilots.
Well one would think it would be common sense to know to not fly one's drone in such a situation given there could be everything from police helicopters, news helicopters, medevac helicopters, firefighting aircraft, etc...flying around.
Unfortunately, Common Sense is not a Common Virtue.
NTSB prelim is finally out and JB does a good job summarizing initial findings.
Leeward side downdrafts, out of energy and accelerated stall from >45°AOB = bad outcomes. iPhone was key!
My day job is DOD liaison, oversight and administration, of Civil Air Patrol as a Department of the Air Force GS-12.
Leeward side downdrafts, out of energy and accelerated stall from >45°AOB = bad outcomes. iPhone was key!
My day job is DOD liaison, oversight and administration, of Civil Air Patrol as a Department of the Air Force GS-12.