A friend of mine has a Huey that has a Forest Service contract. He just
got released from the fires in Montana last week. He gets $5000 per day
to make the helicopter available and he gets $1900 per flying hour in
addition to the $5K. The duty day is 14 hours of which you may fly 8
hours. He always flew within 5 minuites of 8 hours. Every 12 days they
make you take 2 days off. He had his Huey up on the fire for 90 days.
Out of that money you have to pay all your expenses. The Forest Service
does pick up the insurance cost.






Robert M. Gary wrote:

On Sep 25, 3:32 pm, wrote:

That's interesting. So, these guys don't use their own planes I'm
assuming? Is that better pay than a typical CA firefighter?


They certainly don't use their own planes. I'm not sure about the pay.
Its got to be better than the ditch diggers though. They are flying
tankers and drop water on fires.

-Robert