SEAT Manager Refresher Training In John Day Oregon

First day of RT-273 April 19th

The John Day airport facility is brand new and the forest service Rappell and SEAT programs are combined in the same building.

We took a tour of the SEAT base in John Day after lunch.

The big tanks in the back are for the liquid retardant and water to mix retardant.

The John Day SEAT manager explaining how the retardent mixing worked.

There are small airplanes with numbers along the canopy edge of the picture below and they represent all the SEAT's that have been assigned to the John Day base.

It has been great to see some of the people that I used to work with when I was working in Vale.

Below is Brian Rindlisbacher and Johathan Manski

Brian is the SEAT mgr in Vale, OR and Jonathan is the Aviation Manager for Burns, OR and Vale, OR.

  We got to take a tour of the area not open to the public.  Below is the ready room for the Rappell program.

 This is the rappell tower that they have in John Day to perform practice drills.