ASOG 2021 Focus Area: Career Management
Posted By: ASOG Career Center
ASOG Members,
We received a job opening this weekend regarding an Aerial Firefighting ASO position (freelance work). If you have a background in aerial firefighting operations and/or willing to get trained-up, look at the note below and engage accordingly.
“Hey I’ve got a guy with Bode Aviation needing some ASO’s for some freelance work. The platform is a Pilatus PC-12 utilizing a FLIR STAR SAFIRE HD ball and the mapping software is Churchill.
The gig is in support of fighting wildfires in Colorado. Pay is $500 a day and they comp travel and hotels and pay per diem. Schedule is tentatively 12 on and 12 off. The Churchill system has been modified to do mapping, and create fire perimeters. They also do scans for new starts, and do some real time loading of product via onboard satcom. They will do Fire academics for the MSOs so they have a basic understanding of fire behavior and fuels. The point of contact for this is Creig Rice, his email is creig.rice@flybode.com
Please feel free to share with the community to encourage anyone with the experience and time to kill to hit him up.”
Comments
Hi Brian Oglevie , Excellent. Let us know how it goes with Bode Aviation and the position status. If you get the gig, it would be great to hear from you on what it's like to conduct aerial firefighting ops from an ASO position. (Patrick)
I am interested in the opportunity with Bode Aviation and would like to contact them. Thank you
Brian