Boeing 777 hangar filled with FOAM!!

[@MentourPilot]

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How can i contribute to your cause? I need all my funds to save up for my next air ticket.

[@tonyhussey3610]

SOUTH EAST ASIA GOING ASTRAY haha Hope you are patient dude ?? Just joking..he did say.. Do you want? It’s a question not a demand. For you the answer is No.. cool..move on.. no need for a comment.

[@johnfitzpatrick2469]

Hi Captain Petter, I'll support the channel, and do my best.👆

[@annatamparow4917]

Well, I would love to contribute but my credit cards where I work do not support Patreon, and they are not very comfortable with PayPal either?

[@Quasihamster]

It's OK. With so many planes not in service at the moment, airlines can afford to give their planes a warm bubble bath instead of just cold water for a wet sweep.

[@MentourPilot]

Hahaha! Bubble bath...

[@adamp.3739]

For us, it's lockdown. For the aircraft, it's a holiday.

[@mwjones71]

Back in the late 1990's, a friend of mine and I were attending an airshow at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri USA (Home of the B-2 'Stealth' Bombers). Performing that day at the airshow was the "Red Barron" biplanes and "Shockwave" (a semi/lorie that is fitted with jet engines along with afterburners/reheat). The United States Air Force had a B-2 on static display, and the hangar it was normally parked in had the doors open. As "Shockwave" was preparing to perform its signature performance (a drag race the length of the runway against the biplanes) it had to "taxi" down the tarmac past between the hangar and parked B-2. Since the jet engines are its only source of propulsion, the driver of "Shockwave" would (for show purposes) do short bursts on the afterburner/reheat as he went down the tarmac. Needless to say, those short bursts were enough to set off the (synthetic) foam system in the hangar, and the base fire brigade was quickly dispatched, but not before 3 feet (1 Meter) of foam filled the hangar. This forced the airshow to stop for over 30 minutes as they made quick work containing the foam. Fortunately, there were no aircraft in the hangar, otherwise it could have been much worse. The next year we attended the same airshow, and "Shockwave" was back. This time the Air Force made sure the hangar doors were closed before "Shockwave" made its run.

[@davecrupel2817]

Shockwave is such a fun truck to see!

[@Jehty_]

@mPky1 no the jets do nothing. Except propelling the truck to 376 miles per hour. (605 km/h)

[@jwenting]

I'd have ruled that the drag car had to be towed into its starting position :)

[@davidhood6967]

I drive a gas tanker in the United States and all of our loading racks are equipped with a similar foam fire suppression system. there was a change in diesel engine technology about 10 years ago that made diesel engines cleaner, but raised the exhaust temperature. There were multiple instances where a hot exhaust system triggered the sensor that set off the fire suppression system. Good video, and I hope you are able to return to work soon.

[@MentourPilot]

That’s some seriously cool info! Thank you

[@dannydaw59]

When all those little bubbles pop do they release Carbon Dioxide?

[@davidhood6967]

@@dannydaw59 they use nitrogen gas at the locations I go to, but that might not be the case everywhere.

[@thomasclark604]

Woah! I would like to know more about when you were an airport firefighter.

[@MentourPilot]

Thomas Clark sounds like a plan

[@josemiguelromero741]

@@MentourPilot Me too, please hahaha👌🏼

[@em1osmurf]

was a shipboard firefighter. yes, do it! btw: foam is a god-almighty mess.

[@ralfbaechle]

As an active duty firefighter (and yes, I do fly, too) I can tell you we really only use foam when we have to. It can save the day but the environmental mess can be considerable, dried up protein foaming agent is hard to remove. And the stuff is expensive compared to water which here in the Black Forest is available in virtually unlimited quantities anyway.

[@Graygeezer]

I remember when this happened at my base. We had just had a major upgrade to our main aircraft maintenance hangar full of F4s undergoing phase maintenance and repairs. Floor-mounted foam sweep nozzles started spraying protein foam across the floor, knocking several mechanics off their feet. There were a number of injuries, a broken arm, a cracked collarbone and sprained wrists. I heard the alarm going off and looked up to see white foam about 3 feet high rolling out the hangar door. It was really funny looking back, but it was quite serious at the time. The investigation determined that there as no fire or heat source. One of the infrared sensors was aimed too high, out towards the flight line and was triggered by welding flash at the other end of the flight line. What a mess and stink!

[@restojon1]

Amook is perfect Swenglish, my wife is from Norrköping and we're experienced in Swenglish. Hell of a coincidence that this system tripped shortly after a meeting telling the techs that a load of them were losing their jobs.

[@lgolden972]

When I worked for the fire department that serves Fort Lauderdale International Airport (KFLL) we had the same thing happen at the Bombardier dealer hanger in the middle of the night. Turns out one of the activation devices (pull station) was corroded due to exposure to the elements and triggered the system. There were six planes in the hanger being either worked on or stored. Three of them had their hatches open and since the Bombardier planes are relatively low to the ground those three ended up with foam in the cabin. Never found out the total loss but my battalion chief said it was in the millions.

[@jroar123]

As an offshore trainer we purposely trip our foam systems to ensure they work properly. Offshore you have limited choices, burn to death, suffocate, or jump into the sea. Once in the sea anything burning on the surface limits O2 causing death. Foam allows the chance of survival for workers.

[@MentourPilot]

Yeah, that’s a different world.

[@kevtheis]

That's one hell of a sack of batteries!

[@kenmay1572]

Not out of Petter's battery shaver for sure

[@Battleneter]

lol Yea thinking the same thing, thought disposable batteries hardly used these days.

[@chrisleyland2110]

Stored like that is actually no so good. They still contain some voltage and if there is enough contact, they can still heat up and short circuit, yep, it has happened. I now stack mine in the same direction so the terminals can never create a circuit. just sayingg...

[@yankeetango]

Perhaps his home defense weapon!

[@juliogonzo2718]

Haha I never even noticed

[@PilotBlogDenys]

WOW, Foam Party in Hangar with B777👏. My life is so sad compare to that...

[@craigeagle9209]

😅 The planes are having a better time during the virus than we are

[@PilotBlogDenys]

@@craigeagle9209 True story 😔

[@chrisg3362]

When I worked as a USAF FF, we monitored a system test in a new hanger. The system needed two separate smoke or flame detectors to activate or a manual activation to trip the system. The system alarmed for a short period, perhaps 15 seconds, then the foam system tripped. This was to allow someone to push and hold one of the various abort buttons around the hangar. It was a C-130 hanger so wasn't as big at the one in the video. It had 4 oscillating foam nozzles, one in each corner. Pretty neat test.

[@petervfbeardow7954]

Thanks, what I was going to ask, in the computer and comms centers we build, we have an evacuation window during which a button can be pressed to hold off the retardant gas* for 30s followed by 10s window to press it again etc. a full abort requires some extra cross-checks, it's not uncommon for any problem to below the raised floor or above the ceiling and provided they aren't faulty the detectors are a whole lot better at detection than people *The gas in non toxic and whilst it perforce reduces the oxygen it is carefully measured to supply to a level where a fire won't survive but less that the level of danger to anybody trapped.

[@rachelduke1580]

Government: work from home Airplane in hanger missing clouds:

[@LtNduati]

My mom was in the US Navy for awhile and worked a field mechanic and worked on the flight line, station in the Philippines for about 6 years. She said this happened more often than you'd think, happened once at their hangers which housed a few A4 skyhawks, and she was part of a crew that was desperately pushing some out after the foam system began to deploy 😂

[@Mr.Ramirez95]

*"Let's install an emergency shut-off..."* Said no engineer ever.

[@juliogonzo2718]

Engineers exist to make everything as irritating as absolutely possible

[@richardmillhousenixon]

Well I mean to be fair the foam system is kinda like an emergency shut off for a fire so... But yes, said no engineer ever

[@unitrader403]

actually there surely is a shut-off. but only firefighters can trigger it, because people are dumb and would switch it off in an actual fire event because their trousers got wet..

[@ainzooalgown7589]

And along come a German Engineer with a 500 Step Emergency shut off procedure

[@juliogonzo2718]

@@ainzooalgown7589 and if you do the 500 step process in the wrong order flow increases 200%

[@theinfiniteflightdeck]

Oh wow! Nice video, Petter! Keep it up!

[@MentourPilot]

Glad you liked it

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

On my ship in the Navy, we had the foam suppression system in "Upper Vehicle Stowage" and it triggered for no apparent reason. There was even a designated smoking area on one side of the space. It's a pretty huge space... BUT that day, the bells went and it was snowing AFFF foam EVERYWHERE! Big clean-up around ALL the vehicles for a couple Marine Divisions... BUT no real "harm" to speak of. There was talk of a bad "lock-out / tag-out" procedure... AND we had a "training stand-down" regarding tag-outs... BUT nothing was really confirmed. For those who don't know, USUALLY, tag-outs are a SAFETY regulation. It's not just damage to equipment that can result from someone accidentally turning something "on" when it's being maintained or repaired... BUT A "Safety Stand Down" starts with a report about the Safety Incident about 99.999% of the time... whether or not names are included. Whenever you hear those reports, if you were involved (even indirectly) you just KNOW by the details included. They don't have to mention names, and can avoid that because nobody necessarily needs punished if a training session should fix the issue... A "Training Stand Down" is usually a priority advancement in new training, and doesn't require an incident at all. It might be a new replacement to equipment, or some new study that changes the way we handle things, like the everlasting question whether to de-smoke a space or overhaul the fire aftermath first. Smoke still renders you effectively "zero vis" but by de-smoking, you automatically introduce O2 with hot-spots and risk a flash-over... SO there were (at least in the 90's) several writes and re-writes to the "By the book" procedures... ;o)

[@williamgeorgefraser]

40 years ago, while I was working in Southern France for a canal-boat hire company, a private boat moored at the end of our fleet caught fire. We emptied 70 fire extinguishers and thought we had put out the fire but it started again. Fortunately, the fire brigade arrived 2 minutes later. They produced foam by mixing bull's blood with the water and it soon put out the fire. It seemed to be really effective and did not pollute.

[@LowVoltage_FPV]

I used to work at a facility doing heavy maintenance on C-130's. Our primary hanger was large enough to hold 3 Hercs along with a gaggle of smaller stuff. One of the smaller planes was a corporate jet (Maybe a Citation?). One night the Citation (?) came in late at night and the security guard went to open the hangar doors. Unfortunately he instead activated the foam system. We spent the next week cleaning the hanger and all the aircraft components racked on shelving all around the various aircraft in the hanger. All the fire activation points around the hanger got covers installed with big warning signs indicating that they were for the fire suppression system.

[@aarondempsey8290]

Love the vids man

[@MentourPilot]

Great to hear!

[@michaelbond569]

That's actually super interesting. I'm a chinook mechanic for the us army and in our hangars the foam is designed to pump out and fill a hangar in order to completely bury a chinook. If there is a fire there's a risk our aircraft could catch fire and once they start burning it's almost impossible to get them to start

[@zoperxplex]

Looks like a scene from "Home Alone".

[@justinbussell7637]

I was a Volunteer Firefighter six years ago( I have since moved out of the area). We used various types of foam for fires. One for bushfires and one for flammable liquids (Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF)) The one used for bushfires is biodegradable, same with the flame retardant that they drop in bushfire zones. Not sure about the AFFF.

[@patriotpilot]

Nice new t-shirt, btw. It seems the aircrafts are having a better time in isolation than we are :))

[@smaviation9171]

That’s quite interesting to hear the dangers of AFFF foam . I remember reading about a similar situation happening on on British air tours flight 28 at Manchester airport in 1985 where quite a few passengers were covered in AFFF foam while evacuating a 737 due to the crew having difficulties opening the emergency exits so they had to resort in opening the second exit which was on the side of the aircraft that was on fire as a result the passengers being covered in the foam while evacuating .

[@BritishBeachcomber]

As a software developer in the 80s, I installed a system in the multi floor offices at the back of that BA LHR hangar. Panoramic windows looking down on 747s and Concorde being maintained. I stretched the job out for as many weeks as I could.

[@dcclyde575]

Why are people reacting with the dislike (thumbs down)? Whats your problem? This is a highly educational video, we should be thankful rather. ✌️

[@jayzo]

FOAM PARTYYY! Ooh, and the footage of the foam falling from the holes in the ceiling reminds me of the gels from Portal 2 a little. On a serious note, systems often fail, and with a fire suppression system I'd rather cover a not burning hangar with foam than not fill a burning hangar with foam. Yes, it's inconvenient, but at least you know the foam can be deployed if something _does_ go wrong.

[@larryphotography]

Anybody else catch that Mentour Pilot used to be an airport firefighter! I'd love to hear more about your experiences in that job

[@gwencrawford737]

Great video Petter! :) Cheers from a sister firefighter from the US! :)

[@iTz_JLAR]

A lot of the hangers that Ive worked in have these types of systems set to "manual mode" because in auto, just a simple "External Lighting Ops Check" might trip the senser and set the system off. This stuff is very corrosive in it's concentrated liquid form and normally leads to many systems being disabled. The foam is supposed to eliminate all O2 from the area and is very dangerous for workers during release events. We're always told that if you hear the siren/hirn go off, you have 30 secs to vacate the hanger space. A full system release is designed to cover the entire aircraft. P. S. I work in USAF hangers.

[@mongobarn7291]

2020 is only getting better and better

[@badrsalkani9809]

From a 🔥 fighter to a pilot you are a very competitive person.

[@ninanoodles9775]

some people mentioned foamparties in the comments. A warning about that: Imagine you slip at a foamparty. A very likely event, considering everything is soapy. You drop down in the foam and maybe hit your head and can't get back up right away. Well, it's just foam, there is lots of air in there, right? Yes it is, but if you breath those bubbles in. Inhaling, exhaling, the bubbles down in your lung stay the same and their oxygen content gets lower and lower. I am an engineer, planing sprinkler- and other fire fighting systems. When a foam system is tested, you allways have to drill it in all the present people that: no, it's not just foam, it's deadly! Don't get me started on CO2-fire fighting systems. I only heard stories of coworkers, never had to plan one myself. When one system was tested, people still went closer to look and got caught in a dead end floor. Luckily they escaped. When the Factory was aired out, no one considered what can happen outside. The concentration will surely lower fast so nothing will happen. Wrong: the factory was uphill of a cow pasture. with the cows holding their heads low to the ground while grazing, they all died when the CO2 flowed past them.

[@MyAvitech]

I've seen this happen once. It was caused when the tech doing an inspection of the suppression system didn't follow lock out procedures. Fortunately there were no A/C in the hanger, but it was a mess.

[@flagmichael]

I didn't know about the link between the notification bell and the appearance in recommendations. Thanks!

[@Pablosan7]

Tack så mycket! Altid vældigt interessante videoer 👍

[@sanniepstein4835]

My town has a composting system that uses wood chips. Last year the compost was unavailable because it was contaminated with chemicals used in fighting forest fires. (Water bombers, really cool)

[@BogeyTheBear]

The fire retardant from bombers has a ton of phosphate in its composition. It'd be like adding fertilizer to the compost pile-- probably would set it on fire from spontaneous combustion.

[@TheMot616]

Great new video These behind the scenes content are very interesting

[@ΜάνοςΡ-β9γ]

Very nice video, keep up the good work and stay safe, greetings from Greece!!

[@turbofanlover]

Very interesting. I actually didn't realize that these fire suppression systems exist in hangars. Makes perfect sense, of course.

[@leifjenkinson4039]

USA Washington State firefighting school at North Bend (E of SEA-TAC airport) has a jet plane body donated by Boeing for training. If you aren't at the school for Aviation training (mine was Marine), you didn't get to see it in action. The older Protein-based foam was acidic and stunk to high heaven, but on a ship out to sea, you take what you can get and are grateful. They use a better foam, now, changed types of Haylon (miss-spelled), etc.. The Australians invented a "K" extinguisher - K for Kitchen - that was a lot safer around food and food prep surfaces, easier to clean up. You've showed us the extinguishers for the engines. What about the rest of the plane? If a plane filled with either type of foam, I'd guess it would be totaled. I think I've seen hand-held extinguishers on all the small planes I've been in like Beavers, Goose, Cessna 190s, Piper Super-Cub, etc. Darned if i remember if I've seen them on a commercial jet.

[@Koofello]

Thanks for the video 👍👍👍

[@yosiahcharles5739]

I wanna become a pilot just like you👨🏼‍✈️❤️...Hopefully this comes true as I am still a high school 👨🏽‍🎓 ✈️

[@MentourPilot]

Excellent! Keep working hard in school and let’s see what we can do!

[@maseratifittipaldi]

HIGH school ? Well, that's a good start. Altitude is your friend.

[@ahmadtheaviationlover1937]

Mentour Pilot I do also want to be a pilot as well, always loved aviation from the age of 4 and I’m 20 years old finished high school but not have good maths results. Want desperate help from someone like you to provide advice to me in order to become one

[@Dave-uniquenamehere]

Good luck, work and study hard and you'll be more likely to make it!

[@paulmurphy42]

A good idea for a video, keep 'em coming!

[@giovannimonchietto1863]

During this period would you make a video about your firefighter career, I am very curious to know, I've always been

[@chrisleyland2110]

A few years ago, I was flying out of Newcastle, NSW, Australia , first flight of the day. We were notified of a delay and then soon after the apron filled with foam. The aircraft was towed out of the hangar still covered in foam. The foam that spilled out on the apron was a good 2 mts high. A replacement aircraft had to be flown in and we finally departed 5 hours late. If I could post photos, I would, there were thousands of foam balls flying all over the place in the wind and the firefighters had to contain it all. No aircraft could be started till it was all gone and arrivals were not allowed to come to gates, as the foam could have been ingested into the engines

[@Stephanie-vt8xi]

Welldone on the battery recycling

[@ElmerCat]

Years ago, a dance club in Boston had a "foam party", where the whole dancefloor was filled with foam - the foam looked like the "synthetic" foam shown in this video. I was appropriately dressed for the event; wearing nothing but a Speedo swimsuit; and interacting with other people in the cloud of foam was lots of fun. Thing is, for a couple of weeks afterwards; no matter how many times I took a shower; my skin felt like it was covered with a layer of plastic! Still, the foam party was fun!

[@charlesmiller5078]

When we used to use protein based foam, it was made from left over chicken parts, it looked like semi clean oil, I do know on thing, if you use it to wash your car, it shines like a brand new paint job. I did it for years. We used a 50 to 1 mix with water, and 120 lbs of air pressure, then run through a foam head with thousands of tiny beads.

[@11kian11]

Great content as always, love your insight! Hopefully your employers are still operational when all this calms down!

[@stuartellison6895]

Can you do some videos on explaining approach charts, also navigation with DME etc? Love your channel, stay safe!

[@MrPomelo555]

The microphone on your desk is pretty cool, Petter! Do you use this one for live streams?

[@williamevans9426]

'Loved the way you said 'ran amoook'!! Much better than the more usual 'ran amok' (to rhyme with clock).

[@gcewing]

When I first saw the title I thought it might have been a scheme to preserve aircraft while they're mothballed.

[@proprotornut5389]

Fascinating information, as usual. Thanks, Stay safe ♥️

[@erict5234]

I was working at MKE in the early 2000's when the Air Wisconsin (united express) hangar got accidentally foamed... The rumor we heard was that some mechanics were playing basketball in the hanger and the ball hit / triggered the foam system. They had a CRJ200 and a BA-146 in the hangar. Those guys squeegeed out the hangar and MKE fire knocked down the foam with water...

[@emichael6293]

Huh, what? You were an airport firefighter too? Tell us some stories!

[@kstricl]

Well, I guess that system can be considered to have had its annual inspection...

[@pray4ye]

I never knew you were an airport fire fighter

[@MySparkle888]

Here in Michigan the synthetic foams caused a lot of PFAS contamination in the ground water. Very nasty stuff

[@nathandeane4822]

Love the batteries in the background, think everyone has that same bag 😂

[@robertross4635]

In the late 1980's a UA newly painted 747 was covered with the fire foam from above when the APU was left running with the hanger doors were closed. The crew could not turn off the system as the doors to top fire system were locked . They got the aircraft hosed down with little or no damage.

[@Mortimer_Duke]

Took me ten minutes to decipher “amok”.

[@droopyofthenorthwestmounted]

I think it has something to do with Vulcan mating rituals.

[@Sillyturner]

That word has been around as long as I can remember since way before Star Wars. I’m 75. Just a term used when something goes wrong.

[@artyomarustamyan9904]

What does it stand for? AMOK?

[@thomasm1964]

Artyom Arustamyan It is a proper word, not an acronym. It means “to go wildly out of control”. A fire or a crows can rage or run amok.

[@artyomarustamyan9904]

@@thomasm1964 didn't know that. Thanks

[@linuspoindexter106]

You were an airport firefighter? Future content?

[@MentourPilot]

Might be

[@sebastienreichel3214]

@@MentourPilot Should be!

[@rjhornsby]

I think like a controller who was/is also a pilot, your ARFF experience likely brings a unique perspective and mindset to the flight deck and flight operations. It’d be interesting to hear the story behind how you got into ARFF and what the transition was like from there into the cockpit.

[@allamasadi7970]

@@MentourPilot definitely do a video on it!!

[@felixkip8346]

@@MentourPilot consider it a content

[@danielshaw9987]

The Hanger fire supression System can use Sensor activated by a flash . They see the light of the fire. Also not a good idea to use the flash on your camera when taking a picture in the hangers

[@SeanBZA]

Had a landing where we were accompanied by a fire engine with a running foam cannon, just waiting if the crash would occur. But luckily just a failed undercarriage switch, which the pilot, co-pilot and flight engineer, plus me as the mobile data link and safety harness, connecting the flight engineer to the aircraft, as we both were leaning out the side door and looking under the wing, were saying, as the gear did absolutely look like it was coming down correctly, and locking in position. However, absolutely the second smoothest landing I ever had, you could barely tell when we had all 3 wheels on the ground until the engines spooled down. No brakes, but a really long runway, and we had a lot of it in front of us. Best was a 707 pilot demonstrating his cross wind landing capacity, while we had seen, and heard, the 2 planes in front of us land on the same single 16 km long runway.

[@tomstravels520]

SeanBZA leaning out the side door watching the gear come down? Am I missing something here? Sounds like you opened the door of a passenger aircraft whilst it was flying and leaned out to look at the gear? What aircraft was this and when?

[@andythompson6287]

Hangers full of foam was common in the rave times late eighties early nineties

[@hedleythorne]

BA make 10,000 redundancies then this happens the next day... Yeah.

[@BogeyTheBear]

I heard a firsthand account from a coworker about he and his crew deciding to send off a retiring friend with a hose-down from the hangar firefighting outlet. As they were doing this a security officer came rushing in a panic, yelling at them to turn off the water. Turns out the firefighting system was configured to foam down the hangar if a fire hose ran for a certain length of time. Had the guys kept it up for a few more seconds, they would have tripped off the foamers.

[@AdvancedUSA]

AFFF - aka A Triple F - stands for aqueous fire fighting foam. As mentioned, two variations. Synthetic and protein. The synthetic is very effective and faster expanding but is a strong alkaline and will pretty much wreck an aircraft once it gets up to the fuselage. The protein system is bio degradable and far more eco and aircraft friendly but still not good stuff to have in an airplane. This was a protein fire system. It is still going to be a huge clean up effort. As to why the accidental discharge. All of the likely things were mentioned except one - sometimes "poop happens" and this might be one of those cases. In any case, I'm sure the lawyers will make a lot of money on this incident.

[@brendanrobertson5966]

PFAS contamination is a major issue at military bases in Australia currently.

[@maxkillers26]

Love that shirt, I'm going to have to buy one now...

[@k53847]

My boss was once told not to use camera flashes when he spent a couple weeks in a hanger next to a platoon of Blackhawks at Hill AFB for the Olympics. Bright flashes can apparently set off the AFFF flood and they were told they were be in several feet of foam in a minute if it triggered.

[@Rich-on6fe]

Same on oil rigs.

[@roblachman8919]

Great vid..love to know to know more about airport fire fighting. Wife loves your dogs when they appear in the vids. I see things in Europe maybe easing a little. Here in Australia we are told it is costing the economy a $1B per week. Can't wait to get things moving again. Stay safe.

[@roblachman8919]

I should of said $4B a week.😌

[@oldman975]

Back in the late 80s I was attempting to load fuel oil at a tank farm in northern Virginia. Somebody,not me,did something very stupid and set off the foam system. I,as well as a couple other drivers were doused in the stuff,and it was a tad unpleasant. It had a VERY strong fish smell. I was just glad I’d rolled up the windows in my truck,first.

[@ThomasGrillo]

If only there had been beepers, or tone sounders, as well as flashing strobes on the exits, that civilian worker might have survived the rogue foam dispensation incident. Thanks for sharing this.

[@paciic]

Thumbnail: shows 787 Really: a 777

[@Miftahjaya96]

goodluck for yourMentour Pilot...

[@AlessandroGenTLe]

It reminds me something happened in the datacenter (DC) of a company I was working for some 15 years ago... At those time in the surrounding of the DC there were offices for the IT guys like me and I remember one day a colleague got a call from the security asking if there was something going on, because they had a flashing alarm on their console. While he was still on the phone, suddenly the halon charge went off and all the datacenter was foggy white. Of course there was no neither an acoustic alarm, neither a real fire... When it dissipated after a minute or so one of our tech that was in between the DC racks of servers was found screaming trapped into a bottom-hung window because he panicked and tried to escape from one of those :D :D :D It costed quite a good amount of money that fact, because not only we had to ask an external company to check the whole system, not only we needed to change the gas bottles, but we also needed to change the system because halon is now forbidden being it a green-house gas.

[@madvlad1]

I'm not surprised your colleague was trying to get out of the DC with a halon system going off - that stuff was nasty and it can cause asphyxiation if its concentration is high enough. Some of the more modern clean agent fire systems are safer for unwitting occupants, but they cost a lot more. I recall at one of my old places of work someone in a server room protected with Novec 1230 made a hash of fixing some wiring - it caused the smoke alarm to activate and the bloke hadn't been properly briefed on the procedure for aborting the extinguishant release if there was a fire detected in the server room. They'd also failed to switch the system to manual, so while I was busy helping evacuate the building, I saw this bloke looking at the control panel, scratching his head, and then one of the IT techs running towards the room shouting "ABORT THE GAS SYSTEM! ABORT IT!", followed by about several thousand quid's worth of extinguishant being released into the room. Whoops!

[@craig5365]

Hi, thanks for your videos, they are informative and very useful. Maybe you could do some videos around gaining a ppl? Maybe touching on theory, radiotelephony protocol and common mistakes budding training pilots commonly make during flight training?

[@darkprose]

Have you ever done a video about your adventures as an airport firefighter? I haven’t found one. That would be a neat video.

[@dlbrittain1976]

thanks....btw...the florida accident in 2014 was at eglin afb....which is east of us

[@dasy2k1]

That foam is much less dangerous than the fire suppression system in one location I occasionally work... Very strict rules that the automatic trigger is disabled whenever anyone is in the room as you have approximately 3 seconds from trigger to get out of the room, to a source of fresh oxygen and be stood on your head if you want to survive (the system dumps a mixture of argon and nitrogen glass that displaces all the oxygen but is also heavier than air) When the rooms are occupied however it will only be released by breaking the glass on the big yellow button (same as a fire alarm point but yellow) which is next to the exit door and has a 5 second delay

[@CMDRSweeper]

With that constant positive attitude you have Mentour... How the heck do you get down to land? :D

[@tap9095]

That one fatality you mentioned sounds like a horrible way to die. Blind, disoriented, and suffocating. It's like drowning without ever getting wet.

[@COPKALA]

In high energy experiment (underground hall) the foam release was manual and could be triggered by fire engineer after other measures did not extinguish the fire (based on halon gas).

[@psirvent8]

Used to watch lots of similar videos but from fire alarm channels. First time I see a pilot uploading this kind of video to KZbin...

[@laidman2007]

Excellent.

[@walmartdog1142]

Ever been to a Yankee Candle Outlet store? Several time a day, this one area has a snowstorm that looks kinda like the foam, but it is more like flakes and evaporates in time for the next storm.

[@johnt.4947]

I remember my girlfriend and I using contraceptive foam. This was early '70's. Yes, it was a mess.

[@Jerryman1980]

The hangar I sometimes work in has a foam system that is activated by infrared sensors. If you are doing something that produces heat, it must be shielded from the sensors.

[@lucas_k23]

[insert dramatic Mentour-Chair spin]

[@johnfitzpatrick2469]

I was saddened by the information of the civilian at the military hanger. The merit of this fire fighting is good, I always think of the fire 🔼 triangle HEAT-FUEL-OXYGEN. Then there's electronical.

[@GoTrxMerK]

We Similar like systems in some professional kitchens I’ve worked in! They apparently a nightmare if they go off but I’ve never had one go off any kitchen I’ve been in, Touch wood!

[@publicmail2]

“There is something inherently benign about soap bubbles and foam,” Test and accidental releases of the foam often have an “air of excitement.” The surviving contractors were “stunned when the foam became a life-threatening and panic-inducing substance,” .

[@johnfitzpatrick2469]

Advantageously dangerous.

[@publicmail2]

@@johnfitzpatrick2469 It seems benign but once inside you lose direction and may not get out, one surviver waved his hands in front of him to make a pocket of air and the other smashed thru a window.

[@JB-ym4up]

Seeing those foam dispensers go off reminds me of the old Paranoia game. A RPG set in a dystopian future computer run society. Spoilers for the module send in the clones. The foam plays into a fire fight in a warehouse, along with some ball bearings, and robots trying to put everything back on the shelves. Before the mission the players are given plenty of grenades and incendiary ammo, to make sure they spill the boxes of ball bearings and set off the fire system.

[@danielaramburo7648]

Aircraft Mechanics: clean up in hangar 4. Minor spill. Airport Janitor: this is no small clean up!!!! Do it yourself.

[@DukeCannon]

Mn Nat Guard filled a hanger full of Blackhawks with foam a few years ago. What a mess. Good training. Grab a mop private

[@andrejjan2240]

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