Dave Kearton wrote:

For the last 10-15 years there have been fairly loud and regular calls
for a brace of Canadair CL-415s to be based in Australia - from
everybody except the fire services, who seem to be happy with the fleet
of leased agricultural aircraft.

Those Air Tractors are certainly better than nothing, but I'm surprised
to learn larger aircraft are not much more common. Maybe things will
start to change soon.


Jon