[mad_as_he$$]

More pilots, more logistics and more operational issues with more smaller planes. The Supetankers shine when they can hit a fire before it grows faster than support can get there.

[raptor29]

True story. And don’t you think that with a state having the tax base of California, enduring this level of annual devastation from fires, we couldn’t muscle up some money? Boggles my mind.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

You have a lot fewer airports that can host them, they don’t always work in the mountains as well because they are too big, and can’t always get close enough. There are places they are wonderful, but they are just one tool in a toolbox of a lot of tools.