Crop-dusters flying VERY low over populated area

Replacement for the Google vehicles taking the street views? Just imagine how many roads you could get done in one afternoon...
 
cmill said:
400ft is still pretty high. Sounds like mosquito spraying. We do 200ft over densely populated areas for mosquito missions. We're pansies though, we shut it down at sunset. I know guys that do it all night long over the city with NVGs.
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We used to spray at night over the city with no NVGs. Those were the days :)

300 ft was hard bottom for areas we knew really well and 500 ft for the hard bottom in contract (once a year or so) areas. Heck, with the right drift modeling software and a good guidance system, you could fly at 1000 ft and still be semi effective.

JFlighttt said:
Yes! I like that lol. No chemtrails or anything so doesn't look like they were spraying at all. In fact, I didn't see any of the spray bars/rods rigged onto the airplane. GPS calibration was what I was thinking as well. Who knows, I was just curious on what they were doing.
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The booms are there, but as with any modern applicator, they have become very much streamlined and if you are not looking for the booms, you might not see them, especially if you are using chemical volume to determine the location of the booms.

As for not seeing the chemical, pretty good chance that these applications are done ULV (Ultra Low Volume). Generally liquid aerial applications for row crops are done in a 1 - 10ish gallon per acre application, whereas ULV is measured in ounces per acre. We routinely had applications as low as 1/2 ounce per acre when doing mosquito control and generally kept the applications to less than 2 ounces per acre.

ULV applications during the daylight are very difficult to see if anything is actually being sprayed.
 
JFlighttt said:
We need some kind d spray like that for Gulley.
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JFlighttt said:
So I get home from the airport, crack open a beer on the patio and a crop duster just blows right over me. A few minutes later, he does the same thing again....and after a few minutes again and again.

I live in Naperville, IL.
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Lets grab a beer sometime, then maybe well throw bottles at the crop duster!!::sarcasm about throwing the bottles, but not the beer, I'm in ARR::
 
cmill said:
I know guys that do it all night long over the city with NVGs.
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That sounds pretty dangerous over the city, what if some light beam hits the pilot, it`s been a while since I have used NVGs, but we never used them where there was even a slight chance of getting hit by a beam of some sort...

drunkenbeagle said:
Probably!

One piece of good advice I got from a fellow Pawnee driver- always keep the trim slightly nose up. Because someday, for some reason, you will get distracted for a tenth of a second. Better to realize this as you drift away from the field, instead of realizing that you are in fact now driving on it.
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I do the same when flying low, 150-200 feet, I was told to do that to avoid flying the plane into the ground if you get hit by a bird and temporarily loose control.
 
Actually, they weren't spraying anything. It was the DHS looking for evil doers in Suburbia with tactical air attack Air Tractors. Try lasing them and see what happens.

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