2021 summer fires

   / 2021 summer fires #31  
The Beckwourth fire in NE CA now exceeds 80,000 acres.


Yesterday some idiot started a new wildfire near Boomtown in Verdi, NV. Resources are having to be diverted ...

 
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   / 2021 summer fires #32  
We had smoke on the Eastern slope of the Rockies this morning, probably from Bootleg.
 
   / 2021 summer fires #33  
bcp - your maps show why I haven't seen much smoke yet. Everything is blowing due East.
 
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Tuesday morning smoke

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Bruce
 
   / 2021 summer fires #35  
And now, of all things .....

 
   / 2021 summer fires #36  
My brother has been a commercial private pilot for 15 years now. He flew multiple times per week during COVID (rich folks), and he is still flying them all around the world. No issues with jet fuel. That is probably just media hype. If they have a shortage it is probably their own faults for not planning ahead like the rest of the airline industry has for the past few decades.
 
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   / 2021 summer fires #38  
My brother has been a commercial private pilot for 15 years now. He flew multiple times per week during COVID (rich folks), and he is still flying them all around the world. No issues with jet fuel. That is probably just media hype. If they have a shortage it is probably their own faults for not planning ahead like the rest of the airline industry has for the past few decades.
This is not the airline industry, and if they are refueling at at an airport it's a short runway local airport. Sometimes they meet the fuel truck at a forest LZ. There may be plenty of fuel, just not where it needs to be.
 
   / 2021 summer fires #39  
This is not the airline industry, and if they are refueling at at an airport it's a short runway local airport. Sometimes they meet the fuel truck at a forest LZ. There may be plenty of fuel, just not where it needs to be.
Private pilots land at small airports all the time, Most of the fire ops planes I see flying (I do check radar when there are active fires) are flying out of the very same airports most of the time. They are still able to manage fuel.
 
   / 2021 summer fires #40  
That is probably just media hype. If they have a shortage it is probably their own faults for not planning ahead like the rest of the airline industry has for the past few decades.
I'm curious... exactly whose fault is it exactly for not planning ahead?.... The contract air suppression company, the BLM/Forest Service, or the airport's fault?
 

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