How aerial firefighters are trained to fight forest fires
Trainee: OK, simulated a right-hand engine failure. Narrator: Where they practice feathering, or adjusting the pitch of a failed propeller to reduce drag and fly safely to a landing spot. Instructor: Confirm right-hand ultimate feather? Trainee: Confirmed. Trainee: Positive feather. Instructor: Positive feather. Farrell: With an engine failure, we never know when that’s going to happen, and so we want to train to make sure when we have that engine failure, the muscle memory is already there for what we have to do. Narrator: Pilots also practice making an emergency descent. Instructor: Hey, ...
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