Air Tanker Pilots Train on Simulator
There is now a simulator for air tanker pilots to train on (from FlightInternational.com).
The US Forest Service (USFS) is to expand what it claims is the first simulation system catering to the operational challenges of aerial firefighting.The Aerial Firefighting Simulator has been operational since April 2005 at the USFS’s Wildland Firefighting Training and Conference Center at the McClellan Park airport/industrial complex near Sacramento, California.
Its purpose is to hone the tactics and skills required of pilots and air tactical group supervisors to attack huge wildfires, but not to fly a specific aircraft, says the USFS Pacific Southwest Region’s Fire and Aviation Management Group regional aviation safety manager Dennis Brown. “We assume that the people who will train here already know how to fly,” he says.
It won't be too long and there will be simulators for many more wildland firefighting positions such as strike team leaders, crew bosses, incident commanders, etc.
Comments
i am looking for a program to learn how to to fly an air tanker and to put wild land fires out by flying a airtanker
Posted by: nathan at February 25, 2006 08:02 PM
