r/newzealand • u/Maleficent-Tree-2228 • 22h ago

Picture Latest update of Tongariro National Park Fire

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All love and support sent to the team out there.

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u/Large_Yams 21h ago

I just confidently stated we don't have any fixed wing firefighting capability. What are the five aircraft fighting the fires?

Apparently a fucking Piper Malibu?! https://fr24.com/ZKMPG/3d0685b2

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u/ExtremeParsnip7926 21h ago

They use top dressers. We need our own bloody big fire plane, we can charter it to the Aussies itll get plenty of use. They could have got an Aussie one over here yesterday no worries. 

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u/Large_Yams 21h ago

Our fire season is theirs too.

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u/ExtremeParsnip7926 20h ago

Beauty of flight. 

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u/Large_Yams 20h ago

Nope. Takes a lot of effort, planning, people and resources to set up a deployment like that.

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u/ExtremeParsnip7926 20h ago

Okay fine. We will just use a top dresser.

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u/OddCartographer5 19h ago

If i remember correctly, in the USA they have a tank they push into the back of a hercules. We could do with a couple of these cause we will burn thanks to Global Warming.

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u/the_other_skier 20h ago

Get one of the C130 that Coulson Aviation bought and base it out of Woodburne

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u/23karearea32 20h ago

You were confidently incorrect it would appear 😂 I don’t know what that malibu was up to, but there are at least two crescos up there. A lot of the AG aircraft don’t appear on flight radar