The next hit TV reality show? I believe this is the same Desert Air ag pilot who last winter found a missing hunter who was trapped under his ATV, and probably saved his life as he was in bad shape and wouldn't have made it through another night.

The latest adventure, a burning truck on the side of the road, near fields that could have gone up if he hadn't been paying attention. The picture I saw in the paper, and that I couldn't find to post here, is AV WEB worthy, a great shot showing why flying low can be a good thing. What great representatives to the public at large (ground pounders in other words) on how frigging handy us pilots and our aircraft can be, when we're not busy making noise and annoying people. http://www.localnews8.com/video/Pilot-h ... index.html

good deal

Hmmm, I just noticed my last two posts were about "truck fire gets put out", and the other "hauled 405 gallons of mo-gas in the 1 ton". Great timing ehh?

Good PR for GA!

I'm sure many of these incidents and good deeds go unreported or are not picked up by media. I know of several local tow pilots, myself included, who have reported fires, usually from lightning strikes this time of year.

A few years back, while flying low over the Black Rock desert coming home from near Burns, OR, I spotted what looked like a dead body face down and spread eagle on the desert floor (wife in back seat assured me that it was a clothing stuffed with straw - a joke!). We landed and with an overhead airliner's help contacted Reno Approach and got a helicopter ambulance out to pick the guy up. He was severely dehydrated and with multiple injuries. Doubt he would have made it another day.

Just prior to spotting him, I'd been at maybe 10 feet AGL rompin' across the desert. They were trying to finish burning down CA at the time, so I slowly climbed to around 100', otherwise I may have missed him. For sure wouldn't have seen him from 1K, as he blended in pretty well.