Crop Duster Midair — One Fatality

[RDoug]

One dead in Yolo County crop-duster collision

 

[Nark]

I guess you only live once.

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[F9DXER]

I worked for a crop duster for 2 years while in high school. They do some crazy flying. If we made it through the season with only losing 1 pilot and/or aircraft, then it was a good year

 

[ctab5060X]

Not the first time, won't be the last.

Used to be a lot more common back when there were more operators when smaller capacity aircraft were the hot item of the day.

 

[ctab5060X]

I worked for a crop duster for 2 years while in high school. They do some crazy flying. If we made it through the season with only losing 1 pilot and/or aircraft, then it was a good year

Yeah... Used to fly in that segment of the industry. While more dangerous than airline flying, it is safer than most realize. Accident rates are way down from where they used to be.

 

[A150K]

I guess you only live once.

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Glad I'm not the only one who caught that..

 

[killbilly]

I guess you only live once.

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Took me a minute to pick up on that.

Although I read something interesting the other day.

"You live every day. You only die once."

 

[Inverted]

Waiting on word from my buddy who sprays up there, his last FB post was on the 23...

 

[derg]

I used was a 'flagman' in high school.

 

[mshunter]

I used was a 'flagman' in high school.

Now it makes sense. You know a lot of the old chemicals are outlawed now, right?

(Anyone willing to run a web board full of a bunch of whiner pilots isn't right on the head)

 

[derg]

They weren't always whining pilots!

Far less entitlement syndrome and better spelling back in the old days.

 

[ctab5060X]

I used was a 'flagman' in high school.

'flagman'

That is old school, right there!


Crazy to think that in under a decade, the industry went from flagmen to highly accurate, GPS-based guidance...

 

[hook_dupin]

'flagman'

That is old school, right there!


Crazy to think that in under a decade, the industry went from flagmen to highly accurate, GPS-based guidance...

Will this even be a people-job in 20 years?

 

[derg]

'flagman'

That is old school, right there!


Crazy to think that in under a decade, the industry went from flagmen to highly accurate, GPS-based guidance...

Hell yes. It was like 1986 or something like that.

I still remember some idiot doing rolls in an AT402 after a run thinking, "He goin' get himself kilt dead"

 

[ctab5060X]

Will this even be a people-job in 20 years?

Who knows. I think yes, simply because of the liability potential.

 

[derg]

Will this even be a people-job in 20 years?

I can totally see DGPS and large scale hexacopters doing it!

 

[racemey]

One dead in Yolo County crop-duster collision

Damn, this is in my farming neighborhood. Sounds like a young guy (25) who didn't make it. Being around this on a daily basis, amazing it doesn't happen more often especially during the peak season.