1st year students of the Institute of Forestry Engineering visited the Mansky airfield as part of the discipline “Introduction to Professional Activities”. From this airfield, nearby areas are patrolled by observation pilots of the local Forest Fire Center.

Students got acquainted with different types of aircraft and parachute jumping technology. They watched the “newbies” jump, talked with the instructor, and learned more about the profession of an observer pilot.

Observer pilots carry out air patrols of forests on an Aн-2 aircraft, detect fires, decide how to extinguish them and where to safely land paratroopers-firefighters. They supervise the extinguishing efforts from the air. Whether they will rise into the sky today depends on the class of fire danger in the forest.

At the end of the excursion, its participants happily ate porridge from the field kitchen.