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Keith Gill

Keith Gill

Greece Fire

It is a tortuous form of trauma that we repeat every few minutes. A Mediterranean seaside paradise followed by death and destruction…

Apr 3, 2019

Greece Fire

Apr 3, 2019

Keith Gill

Helicopters on Floats

A while back we had an airshow at our little Albenga airport in Italy over the weekend. To be accurate, the airshow was flown at towns to…

Mar 25, 2019

Helicopters on Floats

Mar 25, 2019

Keith Gill

Juggies

Jugheads are often regarded poorly by the helicopter pilots that work with them on seismic jobs. That is too bad, but I understand how the…

Feb 17, 2019

Juggies

Feb 17, 2019

Keith Gill

The Burn Over

Our Helitack crew’s firefighting efforts and my water drops were not going to be enough to get this wildfire under control. No control…

Jan 18, 2019

The Burn Over

Jan 18, 2019

Keith Gill

This should work

The Hiller 12E had been delivered to the job. Literally. It was sitting on a trailer in the customers business yard all by its lonesome…

Jan 18, 2019

This should work

Jan 18, 2019

Keith Gill

Been there done that

More than a few of the jobs I have flown with a helicopter I don’t care to do again. I don’t think they make a long line long enough when…

Jan 18, 2019

Been there done that

Jan 18, 2019

Keith Gill

Helping Out

The helicopter I fly is the best initial attack firefighting helicopter in the world. I have flown at least 46 other models of helicopters…

Jan 18, 2019

Helping Out

Jan 18, 2019

Keith Gill

Value this

My opinion piece is a word that has become so overused that its meaning is now devalued. I’ll talk about the noun primarily, and here are…

Dec 29, 2018

Value this

Dec 29, 2018

Keith Gill

Initial Attack

This is a story I wrote 10 years ago and it is more relevant than ever. We need to be more aggressive in funding for civil protection and…

Oct 1, 2018

Initial Attack

Oct 1, 2018

Keith Gill

Even the Professionals get caught

This was bad. I could see the sickening conclusion in my mind and I knew what had to be done to save the mans life. What I couldn’t do was…

Sep 27, 2018

Even the Professionals get caught

Sep 27, 2018

Keith Gill

Keith Gill

Forty five years ago I made an unfortunate choice to change careers and its been a great life anyway. Helicopter pilot, will travel.

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