I don't need to have a problem. Your posts, your numbers, your descriptions, your information, and your background are a problem all by themselves. They don't add up, and don't equate to whom you proclaim yourself to be.
Your sappy insults and garbage that got bantied about during the "747 firebomber" thread was what I just quoted, following your discourse with DC4boy regarding fire flying.
Someone telephoned me, and asked if airtanker pilots ever refer to what we do as firebombing. Had nothing to do with you. Nope, I said. That's a term that people outside the business, and the media, use. Then they asked about your reference to firebombing. I told them that you're Canadian, different terminology, and yes, it's possible. But what about this eight years vs. fifteen years, they asked. Dunno, I said. Until they phoned, I hadn't read the thread. So I posted.
Apparently when you were talking to DC4boy about fire, you were also referring to ag at the same time and didn't make it clear. It appears clear now. However, your comments from before indicate either a very clear lack of fire experience or just experience from the good old cowboy days. It surely doesn't work like that any more; the industry has learned better.
As for DC4boy's parrying with Mar...it's a losing battle. Mar has more flight and avaition experience at this stage than DC4boy will have during his entire career, and in more aircraft. I think dyncorp and CDF has gone to his brain. I have a lot of respect for anything that Mar has to say. Further, he's got the experience and the authority to earn that respect.
As far as him being in a douglas product, he didn't simply get given his current position in the airplane. He earned it, as has recently A Squared. When I say earned, I don't mean he waited until his seniority number came up and then simply slid into the position. I mean he earned it in blood, sweat, and tears, and it should have been his a long time ago. Make no mistake about it.
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