AOPA’S AIR SAFETY INSTITUTE RELEASES PEAK PERFORMANCE: FLYING THE FIRE BOSS VIDEO
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Air Safety Institute (ASI) released the first video in its Peak Performance series.
Join AOPA’s Air Safety Institute Senior Vice President Richard McSpadden as he visits Dauntless Air at its annual training exercise in Cleburne, Texas, to explore its firefighting mission in the amazing Air Tractor Fire Boss aircraft.
“In Peak Performance: Flying the Fire Boss, we ride along to see how firefighting pilots safely scoop 800 gallons of water out of a lake in 15 seconds, and then release the roughly 6,600-pound load to douse fires," said McSpadden.
McSpadden continued, “I was impressed by these exceptional and humble pilots, and their disciplined flying in a dynamic environment."
"A tenet of elite performance is setting high standards and holding yourself and the team accountable to those standards. Dauntless Air works hard at this,” he concluded.
Peak Performance videos explore high-risk, high-performing flight operations where pilots and crews push themselves and their aircraft to the edge of performance, doing so safely. The video series aims to improve our flying in general aviation.
View the video here.
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