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Hooligan2 wrote:One less CL-215 now as very sadly a Spanish example crashed while fire fighting today. At least one of the crew has died. A dangerous occupation for brave people.
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exhaustgases wrote:Some high up official has major hate for piston engine planes?
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JohnB wrote:exhaustgases wrote:Some high up official has major hate for piston engine planes?
Blame the U.S. Forest Service...they set the rules over the years that banned TBMs (I believe in the basis of their single engines...only to allow turbine AG aircraft), Older warbirds, and basically anything too old.
Some of that is the result of the caught on video crashes (after wing failures) of a civil C-130 and PB4Y. If you're too young to remember those, I'm sure the videos are on YouTube.
In short, Forest Service managers are civil servants and they have to be seen doing something in the wake of well publicized crashes.
After (IIRC) Two B-25 crashes in one day back in the early '60s, they banned B-25s from fire fighting...except in Alaska. I would think an unsafe aircraft would be unsafe up there as well...but that's an example of their CYA mentality.
So, they ban things that may still be viable...but have a bad public or governmental reputation.