GETTIN' SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST Ep.256 | LAFD CHIEF PILOT SCOT DAVISON

Gettin' Salty Experience Firefighter Podcast

Gettin Salty Experience

Society & Culture

4.9 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Be sure and join us with our special guest, 35 year veteran of the Los Angeles Fire Departments aviation unit, Chief Pilot Scot Davison. Chief Scot has over 7000 hours of flying time and has been a flight instructor since 1999. He is going to provide us with his perspective of fighting wildland fires and discuss his experience in Search & Rescue Operations from the sky. Scot has an extensive career with LAFD and has some fantastic stories to share. We have no doubt that he will open your eyes to the world of Fire Department aviation, Firefighting, and Search & Rescue Operations.

Firefighter from 1990 - 2002
- Search & Rescue Pilot 2002 - 2011
- Flight instructor in 1999 - 2025
- Chief Pilot 2011
- 2025 - Retired March 2025
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1:12.0	As always, I'm joined by my brother, being Pete Oakland and Jimmy's super pissy pants, snooker.
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1:26.6	The only podcast, brother, that brings the firehouse kitchen table to you, brother.
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