October 21

Aerial Ignitions Working Unit
Conference Call Agenda
Date: 10/21/15 (Back to the Future Day)
Time of Call: 15:00 Mountain Time
Phone number: 866-882-5265
Passcode: 2429950#
 Roll Call (Agency and Representative)
 Office of Aviation Services (Cathy Barta)
 State (Dan Boyle)*
 Bureau of Indian Affairs (Carlos Nosie)*
 Bureau of Land Management (Darren Mathis)
 Fish and Wildlife Service (Cory Waters)
 National Park Service (Jay Lusher)
 USDA Forest Service (Scott Fry)
 MTDC Liaison (Shawn Steber)
 IHOP Liaison (Bryan Bitting)*
 NIFC Liaison (Open)
 Sub Committee (Agency and Representative)
 USDA Forest Service (Kevin Murray)
 USDA Forest Service (Gary Ravenburg)*
 Bureau of Land Management (Rick Sorenson)
 Bureau of Land Management (Kato Howard)
 Bureau of Land Management (Pete Coman)*
 USDA Forest Service (Evan Day)*
 ( * denotes Not present

Agenda Topics
o Roll Call Waters
o Summer season updates
o Next conference call
o Next face to face meeting
 Round Robin:
 Aviation Management Directorate
 Bureau of Indian Affairs
 Bureau of Land Management
 Fish and Wildlife Service
 National Park Service
 USDA Forest Service
 MTDC Liaison
 IHOP Liason
 NIFC Liaison
 Notes
1) Kato gave us an update of his use of the Raindance machine from this summer. He is recommending it for approval and should have a recommendation letter to Shawn and the Group by end of Oct. The machine did well, concerns are about the seat mount (does not recommend that part) and the proprietary glycol formula (this may be coming from other manufacturers).
2) Shawn had a few things from this summer. First is that when and where we do a face to face meeting SEI wants to come do a presentation for us on some new equipment. Wanted confirmation that we added language to the guide about Tnt helitorches; it is included. Look at putting together an approval letter for new pump/motor combination for the simplex torches out there. Has no further update on the sphere issues that came up this year, noted that a proprietary glycol may be coming from SEI also.
3) Rick moved into a new job with the BLM at Cedar City. Will continue to work on the long line testing that was approved last spring
4) Cathy was unable to continue work on the helitorch instructor’s guide this summer, due to loosing track of Rick. That project will begin to move forward again.
5) Darren thought it would be a good idea to work on putting out a field request for the next guide updates in the near future. Also going to follow up on Rick staying on the sub-group for the BLM.
6) Scott was looking for any examples of completed PASPs in the new format. R8 will be hosting an aerial ignition workshop in the spring, looking for help to teach and for old agendas. This may be a possibility to combine our face to face meeting. Going to look for a new FS helitorch SME to replace Rick
7) Please take a look at the polls coming out for the next call and face to face meeting
Thanks everyone, we will talk to you all in Dec.