Friday, January 27, 2023

info on NZ wildfire aircraft

https://www.tracplus.com/blog/international-trends-and-the-future-of-aerial-firefighting-in-new-zealand/
- tried to save this at archive.org - unknown if successful

seems they mostly use private aircraft

tourism is big in NZ - maybe that have lots of tourist helicopters
that can be used to fight fires - since the tourists probably dont
want to pay to be smoked out

"In NZ we don't really have large aircraft, but we have a hugely
varied fleet with over 260 off-contracted aircraft, ranging from
400-litre to 2000-litre buckets. If we put three average helicopters
and a fixed wing aircraft in a circuit, with a 5 minute turnaround for
the helicopters and 15 minute turnaround for the fixed-wing water
bomber, we can lay down 40,000 litres an hour with that circuit. So if
you have 3 circuits running, that's a lot of hitting power." - thats
10,000 US gallons per hour approx

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