He calls the Forest Service when he is ready, that's how it works. He
isn't interested in working all year and all over the country. I think
this year he made himself available around June 1st. Not much goes on
until about the second week of July.

Gig 601XL Builder wrote:

Newps wrote:

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.




Curious, about how many days per year does he have the Huey available to
them?