Crop-dusting drugs in Columbia

That's hardcore. You would think these days, with GPS and satellite imagery, that they could do the runs at night.
 
Good Lord. Can you imagine how much it's costing us every year to run those missions?
 
now that is a wild job. I bet it would be fun though...aside from the getting shot at thing!:dunno:
 
:yup: that's funny!

How do I find out which companies are doing this sort of work? I would assume the info is available to the public.
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Columbia- Small city in SC.
Colombia - Country in S. America.

I see it mixed up all over the place.
 
Had a buddy do that for a couple of years.. it is run by Dynacorp and E.A.S.T., they have the trade a plane ad looking for people with crop dusting experience with Spanish speaking skills. He said the flying portion of the interview was not much of a big deal, but the hard part was getting through survival school. Pilots up against Special Forces guy hunting them in the jungle of Florida. The coolest part was practicing helicopter long line extractions out of the jungle. But the fun pretty much ended on going in country. The cartel has a standing bounty on your head.. you get shot at in the air, you get shot at in the street (pilots are issued a 9mm Berretta and a M-4 to be carried at all times). When they were based in towns pilots and crew were told don't leave the government hotels, and when they were based out on jungle military bases they were usually bombarded with propane bombs at night. (Take 2 100lb propane bottles, use 1 to propel the other over the fence and detonate the second). He was involved in several running gunfights on the occasions he did leave the hotel. Pay was a little over $100,000 a year, with $70,000 tax free. They cover your travel back and forth to Columbia and you are issued a State Department ID and a Columbia national police ID. He was saying that the biggest hypocrisy of the whole operation was that they only focused on the FARC operation and were told to ignore other grow operations that were owned by people friendly to the government. After his contract was up he got the hell out of there... he was pretty effected by the whole scene down there, pretty much summed it up one night over beers.. he'd never been anyplace where human life had so little value.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
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After his contract was up he got the hell out of there... he was pretty effected by the whole scene down there, pretty much summed it up one night over beers.. he'd never been anyplace where human life had so little value.ffice:office" /><O:p></O:p>
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I haven't met anybody who has worked in South America that hasn't said the same thing.

That being said, if you're one of the people out there that craves excitement and doesn't mind getting paid some decent money to lay it all out every day, this job sounds a lot like FAC duty back in 'Nam.
 
Capt. Chaos said:
Had a buddy do that for a couple of years.. it is run by Dynacorp and E.A.S.T., they have the trade a plane ad looking for people with crop dusting experience with Spanish speaking skills. He said the flying portion of the interview was not much of a big deal, but the hard part was getting through survival school. Pilots up against Special Forces guy hunting them in the jungle of Florida. The coolest part was practicing helicopter long line extractions out of the jungle. But the fun pretty much ended on going in country. The cartel has a standing bounty on your head.. you get shot at in the air, you get shot at in the street (pilots are issued a 9mm Berretta and a M-4 to be carried at all times). When they were based in towns pilots and crew were told don't leave the government hotels, and when they were based out on jungle military bases they were usually bombarded with propane bombs at night. (Take 2 100lb propane bottles, use 1 to propel the other over the fence and detonate the second). He was involved in several running gunfights on the occasions he did leave the hotel. Pay was a little over $100,000 a year, with $70,000 tax free. They cover your travel back and forth to Columbia and you are issued a State Department ID and a Columbia national police ID. He was saying that the biggest hypocrisy of the whole operation was that they only focused on the FARC operation and were told to ignore other grow operations that were owned by people friendly to the government. After his contract was up he got the hell out of there... he was pretty effected by the whole scene down there, pretty much summed it up one night over beers.. he'd never been anyplace where human life had so little value.ffice:office" /><O:p></O:p>
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Did your buddy fly in SE Alaska also? My uncle who used to fly for LAB and Haines Airways, had a buddy that did this type of flying in South America too.
 
Roger said:
Good Lord. Can you imagine how much it's costing us every year to run those missions?
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No kidding. Just legalize it already. We're only pushing up the price by reducing the supply.

I would bet almost 100% of everyone who doesn't do drugs now won't go out and try them if legal.
 
wheelsup said:
No kidding. Just legalize it already. We're only pushing up the price by reducing the supply.

I would bet almost 100% of everyone who doesn't do drugs now won't go out and try them if legal.
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Not this guy. And not a whole bunch of others I know. Many reasons but the #1 reason is it's not a performance enhancing drug, no matter what anyone says. And that negative effect requires only little dosage.
 
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