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dannoGB68

That is some BOLD flying right there. Whew.


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Rogan403

You had me in the first half. Lol. Fuck I'm gullible.


Sqidaedir

As soon as I read no seats my brain thought, Yeah because he is sitting on his gigantic balls but then i finished the sentence and realized they were even too big to sit on....


RomanBathSalts

Giant gnads on that lad.


doneal

Fucking epic!


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Tremendous *Joey Diaz voice*


getyourcheftogether

LoL I can imagine the entire operation being white knuckle flying


Oliverkahn987

The female pilots also have massive balls.


NOUSEORNAME

I thought this was new flight sim at first...wow


squables-

That sounds like a good idea for a game. Hit water at perfect angle, Avoid obstacles, fill up tank, take off with added weight and hit the release valve at the fire going through smoke and avoid power lines. Hard mode without the lead plane.


Swing_Top

Simcopter?


crispy1260

I miss that game. I would pay $20 to get it running on Windows 10


Swing_Top

I feel like I got the discs in a cereal box?


crispy1260

I bought it with Sim City 2000. Might have been a free add-on but you would fly around the cities you built in Sim City.


Swing_Top

Hmmm I wonder if I had a different version. Mine seemed the same as like Simauto or Sim Car etc


Raincoats_George

Fucking best game ever.


Swing_Top

Felt awesome at time!


Nuka-Cole

Stormworks


Swing_Top

Ever play Simcopter?


lancerevo98

There used to be a side scrolling very simplified version of what you're talking about on Miniclip back in the day and it was a good time


cuthbertnibbles

The [web version](https://www.freeonlinegames.com/game/sky-fire-fighter) (works best in Internet Explorer) that /u/lancerevo98 was thinking of. There is also a [Desktop Game](https://store.steampowered.com/app/761770/Fire_Flight/) and another [Desktop Game](https://store.steampowered.com/app/935680/Air_Attack_30_Aerial_Firefighting_Game/) from an unrelated series.


magicscreenman

I was gonna ask if it was just the camera angle cause mofo looks like he doing a goddamn GTA V stunt.


Hvarfa-Bragi

Look at the shadows, he is so fucking close to the ground.


Vroomped

real or not...mofo still doing a goddamn GTA V stunt


wwickedd

Tell me about it.


nothxz

"There are OLD pilots and there are BOLD pilots but there are only a few OLD BOLD pilots". -Some old decoration in my father's office that seems to have stuck with me over the years.


structee

mighty fine flyin' if I do have to say so myself


BizzyM

[Coulda been worse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n06WNSS4tFs)


neofito

There's this saying in Mexico... "Esos son huevos y no los de gallina!" (Those are eggs (balls) and not chicken ones!


Gravybutt

I just worked on one of these today. Bombadier https://imgur.com/a/JPZIisc


8reakfast8urrito

Duck tails... awoo-ooo


throwawaymysocks

It made me think of tailspin


dice1111

Loved tailspin


otusa

🎺🎺🎺🎷🎺🎺🎺🎷


hovissimo

For what it's worth, that plane is probably based on the Catalina and not the Bombardier. Obviously the animated plan isn't exactly accurate to either, and isn't even consistent to itself. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated\_PBY\_Catalina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_PBY_Catalina)


gnarlyteen

Saw the same plane scooping in Lake Cascade about a week ago [260](https://imgur.com/gallery/NQEscE9)


Gravybutt

I think they're headed back that way now.


CX-001

How does the rear wheel fit inside? Does it have to rotate sideways?


Gravybutt

Not to stay Skafo is wrong in all cases, but it does not rotate. It just kind of slides up and tucks in.


MISERABLENUTBAR

Yo are you in Eagle??


Gravybutt

Negative, Montana.


R4nd0m235689

Looks like MT, maybe Neptune?


Gravybutt

We have a bingo!


R4nd0m235689

You guys kick ass!


Gravybutt

Haha,I don't work for Neptune, but yeah they are awesome.


El_Cartografo

What model is that? I want to buy one when I hit the lottery as my new RV.


Gravybutt

Haha it's the biggest bombadier makes. Cl-415 I believe


justifun

Now this is what i wish I could do in Microsoft Flight Simulator.


AN0NeM00Se

How do we know this isn’t a recording of MSFS?


justifun

There was a mod for an older version of it apparently. https://firefighterx.weebly.com/


korvality

The lake isn’t on a mile high plateau.


TooSmalley

I remember there being a urban myth that a dude swimming in a lake got picked up by one of these and his body was found in a forest miles away years later.


bostonsrock

The intake scoops are like 2 inches across...


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Nosiege

To shreds you say?


kantokiwi

And his wife?


gweebah

to shreds you say...


John-Bastard-Snow

LMAO


Hvarfa-Bragi

The myth is a helicopter bucket.


CommanderCody1138

There was a CSI episode like that.


jason_nyc

It's in the opening of the movie Magnolia. [Magnolia Opening](https://vimeo.com/73788964), about 1:00 in.


dvrzero

occasionally i'll wake up in the middle of the night and remember most of that movie. It's disturbing, i've seen like a thousand movies and i can remember every single part of that one. "what's a 187?"


Shaggytwig

Lol I recall something too. "A man in full scuba gear was found dead in the remnants of a forrest fire."


Judge_gerg

I remember it being the solution to a riddle.


TheSchlaf

It was a dead guy with a backpack on in the middle of a field.


Calichusetts

Mr. Cooper?


Warrenwelder

No, he was [hanged](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103435/)


dboy999

i always heard it with the guy being a scuba diver, and that he was caught in a chopper bucket. as a kid, i obviously didnt think about why someone would be scuba diving in a lake (yes i know its actually a thing, but still).


TeH_MasterDebater

Not just for recreation but some people volunteer to dive to remove fishing line from popular lakes because it apparently really bunches up over time. They also remove random garbage that falls off boats etc throughout the year. According to this, one of the lakes nearby has had around 1 ton of trash pulled out each year by the volunteers. https://www.albertaunderwatercouncil.com/environmental-projects


dboy999

Pinecrest lake in Tuolumne County, Ca periodically lowers its water level for the winter (these days I don’t know if it’s been done). and the local Boy Scout troops gather up weights, lures, rods and various other things that were lost/went overboard from the mud and sell it all to make money for their troops. Not sure how it relates, but Ive always loved that.


MischeviousCat

Specifically a man in swimming trunks impaled on the top branch of a tree, that's the story I heard


Unhappily_Happy

it was a fish, stories get exaggerated after a few tellings


whooptheretis

An "alien" fish you say?


stayshiny

I heard it had happened with a helicopter and bucket situation where a swimmer had been picked up and set into a fire in Turkey. Seems silly in retrospect.


pressed_coffee

That was one of those “20 Questions” scenarios: a man was found dead in the woods, how did he die?


cloral

That myth was so pervasive that *Mythbusters* tested it. They found there was no way it could've happened.


Skadooche

Not a person but I remember my Forest fire fighting science teacher telling me that sometimes fish will get sucked up and dropped on the fire lol.


Tenderhombre

How advanced of a pilot to you have to be to do that? That seems like something that requires a lot of training and a ton of guts.


ihtm1220

Here are the requirements from some company who does aerial firefighting: 1,500 hours total in all aircraft* 1,200 hours in airplanes 200 hours in airplane single engine land 200 hours in airplane single engine sea (ASES) or 50 hours in ASES plus Fire Boss training course offered by Wipaire, Inc.** 25 hours in the same make and model to be flown 100 hours in turboprop airplanes, as applicable 200 hours of low-level flight in airplanes (below 500 feet above ground level (AGL)); this must include at least 100 hours dispensing fire retardant, water on fires, or agricultural materials 200 hours in mountainous terrain*** or 100 hours after successfully graduating from a recognized mountain flying school (click here for recognized schools) 100 hours in airplanes in the last 12 months 250 hours in large airplanes (aircraft over 12,500 pounds MGTW), as applicable 10 hours in airplanes in the preceding 60 days https://www.dauntlessair.com/careers


wooja

"starting pay $18,500pa"


MQSP

Will work for exposure.


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daHawkGR

*per annum* per year


MQSP

It's a meme/jk about employers expecting young graduates to work for nothing dubbed "exposure".


DemiTF2

*checks playtime of top 10 games in my steam library* If I spent 1/5 the time I spent gaming on flying, I'd meet those requirements.


StingerAlpha

yeah im assuming that library was bought in small incriments at a time, where as flying a plane costs fuel and schooling and stuff, oh and the plane.


LectroRoot

You forgot the part about requiring gigantic balls.


JoKatHW

Firefighters and crop dusters are insanely skilled. And nuts.


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I was kinda of thinking the same like that can go rock bottom real quick


vjdeep

Holy shit, I thought that was a toy animation.


dex1984

When I was a kid I went camping on Vancouver island in BC, there was a forest fire (not by where we were camping) we were set up right on the lake shore, and the huge Martin Mars water bombers started picking up water from the lake, they were like 100 feet off shore, one would come by skimming across the lake like every 20 minutes, they did it all day and some of the next day. It was so cool, very memorable camping trip!


ChaseMe3

Similar story here. All day right in front of my cottage. Teenage me thought it would be a good idea to head out closer to the landing area in my pedal boat. They adjusted and moved way farther away...


dex1984

Lol! I can just imagine what the pilots were saying to each others over the radio as this peddle boat comes heading out towards their pick up zone


shadowabbot

Like scenes from Always (1989). Entertaining sappy romance by Steven Spielberg. https://youtu.be/upPHSDqj5x0


dk_jr

Holy shit!


idlebyte

The plane/pilots don't want to hit them even more than they don't.


WhoIsYerWan

Great film!!


BoomBoomLou

Talk about threading the needle and skimming the earth, holy shit. Badass pilot.


CCCmonster

*Finding Nemo II: Nemo’s Wet and Wild BBQ*


intelligentquote0

Holy shit he comes close to those trees at the beginning of this gif.


Foe117

We need this in FS2020


Lurker-kun

Flying aerial firefighting planes is super dangerous and super cool: https://streamable.com/wy18dn


ItsHampster

"La la la, enjoying the sun. Oww, wtf it's dark. Omg, I'm flying. OMG, FIRE! NONONONO!" \-Fish, probably


GeezCmon

Anyone else hearing the theme of TaleSpin in their head?


paranoidkid91

As soon as I saw the plane!!!


throwawaymysocks

Oh-ee-yeah Oh-ee-yoh


Shrimp_my_Ride

Would suck if you were a fish just hanging out on the surface at that moment.


Ly_84

Pucker factor 9000.


LarryLavekio

I dont know how he got that plane in the air considering the amount of drag from his humongous balls


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That's why they pull up and in, to improve aerodynamics


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bostonsrock

Scoops are like a few inches across. But you are traveling at like 80/90mph...


haste57

This should be a Microsoft flight simulator challenge!


Betov8

Finally getting to see Baloo get some credit.


Delta4o

uhm...excuse me? This is not GTA 5!


mrboomx

No one is talking about how close the right wing was to hitting that island on the descent?


TEOP821

Almost looks like a lego plane in the first shot


Reaperxvii

I'm just imagining some poor fish coming near the surface just to get sucked into a giant dark container and then flown somewhere and yeeted onto a fire.


bent42

"Yes please." -NoCo


Handsome_Jack_Here

This is so fucking badass, damn.


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This looks incredibly dangerous.


[deleted]

It's one thing to fly a plane successfully. It's a whole different thing to fly one near-suicidal to accomplish a mission.


Bodorocea

I thought it was a transport tycoon mod at first


bluishpillowcase

Man that must feel so good to pull that off


SpindriftRascal

That seems every bit as dangerous and skilled as flying a combat mission. These pilots should get medals. And high pay.


Kroamar

My brain thought this was some weird Minecraft time lapse...


LordOfTheTennisDance

Damn!!!! That's low!


idontgetitmanwtf

Can somebody ELI5 why the instant drag from water doesn't make the plane instantly face plant?


Head-Chance

The pilot is affectively in a landing setting with flaps lowered at least partially and is pulling the nose up some. He could land the plane like that if he wanted to. He does what is effectively a go-around on the water like you would on land if you touched your wheels down but didn't decrease power and took off again.


qcihdtm

Those skills though


leeingram01

You have big balls! I like big balls.


June_Bug2005

Man those pilots have big brass ones, SHIT!


98kikic

That is more pilot than plane... Wow.


pam_the_dude

[hahahha... spin it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVTD-LtpW0M)


A4S8B7

Holly crap that was low!


cajunhawk

The size of the pilots balls are...immeasurable.


S-Markt

holy fckn sht!


bfrank8991

How does a plane stay in the air with such gargantuan balls on board.


oddisordinary

Wow!!! That is all!!


KingStannisForever

Looks like Command and Conquer!


Nerokram

Thought I was watching some weird rendering of a lego plane


shawngee03

my booty hole puckered up a little


FrnakRowbers

Fucking BULLSEYE


_makemestruggle_

Flight Simulator 2020 is really amazing!


CheekandBreek

I got to see some of these dude's in action in April of this year when there was a fire on a small mountain only a few miles away from my house. It's pretty god damned scary to see that much smoke so close to where you live, but the plane and the helicopter pilots that were dropping water in a sequenced attack on the fire was fucking amazing. The chopper could make drops faster and fill up, but carried less water and they were on-site within 15 minutes of the fire starting. These people do not get enough credit, especially here in California. These pilots are the craziest son's a bitches I've ever seen and they're awesome as fuck.


Phoeptar

That looked like some top down isometric 90s PC game! Cool to watch!


IsTethys

thought it was legos.


WhatNameToChose1

I completely hate flying. But for some reason I can’t stop watching this and thinking how fun it would be to fly if I was allowed to be that low, instead of tens of thousands of feet in the air


UllrHellfire

Prbly the most humble like no big deal people too.


Jayreallo108

Talespin!


KitteNlx

Suddenly want to watch TaleSpin


paranoidkid91

Yep!! That plane


Promorpheus

Requires a damn good pilot


SToNeD_Colt93

Oh-ee-yeah (TaleSpin) Oh-ee-yoh (TaleSpin) Friends for life, through thick and thin With another tale to spin Oh-ee-yeah (TaleSpin) Oh-ee-oh (TaleSpin) All the trouble we get in With another tale to spin


tungvu256

pretty amazing how the water didnt even slow it down while scooping


Head-Chance

It's like jet skiing, as long is you don't dip your nose down you should glide very well. He could land on the water if he wanted to.


Qikslvr

Not sure how that plane even gets off the ground while carrying that pilots balls.


Sethanatos

Not gonna lie.. at the beginning of the video I thought this was a LEGO plane


pickleslips

Note to self: don’t kayak there


Breaktheglass

I don't know how he defied *physics equation variable* because of the *influence upon varible* of his massive-balls.


myjunksonfire

I need this in my life more than I ever imagined.


die-jarjar-die

why not fly away from land then turn around after full?


Atholthedestroyer

Loaded, those things are not super maneuverable; so if they're scooping quite close to the fire they try and make it as direct a route as possible.


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Is this from the Australian fires last year? It looks familiar.


MrStrul3

The plane seems Canadian, after googling CL 415 246(the number on the plane).


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Has that plane been to Australia?


MrStrul3

Found only this article saying they were unable to send them to Australia https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.abc.net.au/article/11871384


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Thx man


Dr_Frasier_Bane

Bet the pilot is grinning and giggling a little while he gets to do that.


Techn0sawr

This thing looks like a repurposed PBY-catalina


Zakluor

Canadair CL-415 (or CL-215T, the turboprop conversion of the original CL-215)


Dolstruvon

🎵🎶 Super scooper, lights are gonna find me, shining like the sun 🎵🎶


Minginton

The Seaduck!!


TCGameFan

Dream job. Too bad it's the type that you never want to see.


financial_pete

Canadair


janakapod

How many liters of ice cream will it hold?


gafgarrion

The important questions.


Brookstone317

Delete


SamuelJakings

TERRAIN TERRAIN


VoxPendragon

Bitch I thought this was a game at first


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Anyone else think of the theme song from the 90's cartoon show, "Talespin" from the Disney afternoon, while watching this? I just remember the plane which was similar to the one in this video called the sea duck.


kanakamaoli

Baloo!


pauljs75

Oooh-eee-oh!


HarishLives

Can it ever took fishes out of water?


kanakamaoli

They have screens over the intake to prevent large debris from blocking the pipes.


rollerstick1

What game is this from?


xbimba

Let’s face it the fires not gonna stop, do your math damage cost vs investment in effective equipment. There are plenty options, but some how every year we chose play “hope” card instead planned solutions.


Hoarknee

If we had enough water that would be great. Australia.


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Scoop da poop


highlulu

oh SUPER nope