Release Tactics
Release Tactics : The strategic calculation of the way in which water and/or retardant should be released on a fire or parts of a fire. There are multiple ways that a pilot of an aircraft can make releases of water or retardant. Different release tactics will be more or less successful within particular situations and the choice of tactics used will vary according to a variety of factors including but not limited to: the type of aircraft deployed; the objectives and priorities of a suppression plan; current and predicted fire behaviour; fire weather; topography; and, flight visibility. Release tactics for water and retardant are described using four different variables: (1) Release mode; (2) Release height; (3) Release over a slope; (4) Release pattern
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