Chris Daniell: Fire Fighting Pilot

Pilot to Pilot - Aviation Podcast

Justin Siems

Leisure, Hobbies, Business, Aviation, Careers

4.9 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Avination, have you ever wondered what it is like to fight fires in an airplane? Well, here is your chance to find out. Some of the things Chris and I talk about are...

How Chris is a second generation pilot
Aviation wasn’t his first career choice.
Chris moved to North Carolina to pursue a career in racing.
How a phone call from his dad convinced him to become a pilot.
How he started out his aviation career by loading ag planes.
Chris talks about timber season for ag pilots.
Chris talks about his experience with the flight schools he dealt with.
Chris tells a story about what you shouldn’t do as an instructor with a new IFR student.
Chris talks about the struggles he had in his Instrument training.
We talk about how radio coms can be difficult for a young pilot.
We talk about the benefits of going on a flight to observe other students
Chris talks about the goals he had while he was in his training.
How and why Chris always wanted to fly in the fire industry.
Chris talks about how someone can become an ag or SEATs pilot.
How the ag and fire fighting industry will be needing pilots badly.
We talk about pay for a fire fighting pilot.
Chris talks about what fires are the worst to fight.
We talk about last years horrible fire season.
How Chris and I knew each other from flight school in Charlotte, NC.
Chris and I both took the ATP - CTP course together.
Chris talks about a day in the life of a Fire fighting pilot.
We get into the most take off and landings he has had in a day.
We talk about the threats they face while flying.

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Happy Flying,

Justin Siems

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0:00.0	Episode 61 of the Pilot, the Pilot Podcast, takes off now.
0:04.0	My name is Chris Daniel,
0:11.0	fly seats, which is short for single engineer tankers for a company out of
0:18.0	love Texas.
0:19.0	What is going on, aviation nation and welcome back to the Pilot the Pilot Podcast episode number 61 featuring
0:24.4	Chris Daniel. Chris and I talk about a lot of things in this episode we talk about
0:28.5	what it's like to be a firefighting pilot, what it's like a typical day, how many landings and
0:33.9	takeoffs they do, what a typical load is. We just get really into it. If you've
0:38.0	ever thought about being a firefighting pilot, this is the episode for you. We
0:41.8	talk about the typical process that you go through,
0:43.7	we talk about how you build your hours,
0:45.4	how you want to get the right hours
0:47.0	to be hired by one of these companies,
0:48.8	and it's just sounds like an amazing career.
0:50.8	Sounds like something that you can really
0:52.3	have a very, very successful career in.
0:54.8	Chris and I actually know each other from a couple of years ago. We met at Aerwood Aviation.
0:59.0	It was my flight school that I went to in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was a CFI there while I was training. He was not my
1:04.6	CFI, but we both didn't know of each other there. And then fast forward a couple of years to our
1:08.7	ATP CTP class that we had to take before we took our ATP check ride and we actually were in the same class.
1:15.2	Five people and I happen to know one of them.
1:17.6	It just goes to show you how small of a world aviation world can be handed actually is,
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