Posted on 09/06/2007 3:00:58 PM PDT by WestTexasWend
Tell me where the ones with 70 years experience are so I can stay out of that area.
Does crop dusting qualify as an “art”?
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i hope the one who flies over my home doesn’t have 70-years experience!
Maybe crop dusting is fading but bull riding is doing well!
Aw man, and here I was thinking that I could get a UAV, hook up a dusting rig and fly the thing remotely.
Crop dusters are still pretty active in my area...They buzz my house every year...
If you've ever chased Roger Thornhill, you wouldn't be asking that question.
BTW- when flight attendants have an unruly customer, they walk by and "crop dust" (their term) with body gas. (there is some collateral damage, sadly)
“Today, the greatest deterrent for a young pilot wanting to break into
the business is how hard it is to get insured. “
Welcome to another beneficial profession screwed by the jackals
of the law and insurance profession.
(If this is true and a real factor).
I remember meeting a dumber-than-rocks guy who paid for most of
his college degree at Central State University (in Oklahoma)...
by doing ONE summer of crop-dusting in the USA and some
Central-American countries.
But that was a lifetime ago (in the late 1970s).
We don’t see them around very often, only in wet years when farmers just can’t get on the fields using the cheaper conventional methods.
looks like a lot of fun though. I’m not sure what kind of planes the ones I saw are, but they looked like a p41? trainer from ww2
Had one bank 90 degrees over my car and I was counting the spray tips on each nozzle as we both passed at speed.
Pilot’s Adage:
There are old cropdusters and there are bold cropdusters.
But there are no old bold cropdusters.
It has always been a ‘dying’ art. The reason life insurance is so high for cropdusters is they have a life/death expectancy ratio that is the highest on the insurance tables.
I'll fly in a Noo Yawk minute !
a man at my airpark is 82
can out fly anyone you or i know
and teaches aerobatics
You're darn tootin' it is an art. There are pilots than can get the job done and there are guys that can spray a field as well and accurately as a man on the ground with a spray rig. It is definitely an art.
here ya go here’s an AG-CAT locally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ciac12wnQ4
This ones a turboprop IIRC... not sure of the name
http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2582939550028906950MvDubd
where are you?
I have a rv6a
That’s pretty much the standard rig custom sprayers use around these parts as well. Not much stops those things, not even standing water because they travel fast enough not to get bogged down.
It wouldn’t suprize if the idea for those sprayers came from some guy watching those swamp buggy races they have in the south.
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