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Offline guzzijohn

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« on: April 11, 2012, 08:14:15 AM »
They have been out in force lately. If there had been some explosions and gun fire I would have thought we were on a movie set for a WWII movie. The plane in the picture is a Cessna Ag Wagon with 600hp. Fun to watch and difficult to get photos of with a point and shoot and minimal experience. These pilots have a pair of big ones. In the photo of the plane flying just past the trees the pilot had to raise the right wing to clear the top of the taller tree. He had just flown over our front yard within 30 feet or so of the house.



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Re: cropdusters
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2012, 08:50:13 AM »
Those guys fly like a lot of guys would like to, but can't without pissing off the FAA
 
Flying low, steep pullouts, wingover? Fun, fun, fun! And get paid, too....
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Re: cropdusters
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2012, 02:48:07 PM »
Quote from: yellowtail3 on April 11, 2012, 08:50:13 AM
Those guys fly like a lot of guys would like to, but can't without pissing off the FAA
 
Flying low, steep pullouts, wingover? Fun, fun, fun! And get paid, too....




Pay high insurance premiums also :)
My brother bought into a crop duster business back in the later 60's and the business they bought had lost two pilots in three years. He had a license to fly, but only worked on the ground and left the crazy flying to his two partners.And they were crazy!I had logged quite a few hours in Choppers as a Grunt, in the 11th AA, and never feared for my life like I did flying with these guys a few times.
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Re: cropdusters
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2012, 03:51:22 PM »
What are they spraying for this time of year?  Around here it's mostly just spraying corn and beans in the summer.
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Re: cropdusters
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2012, 04:34:11 PM »
Quote from: hunt-m-up on April 11, 2012, 03:51:22 PM
What are they spraying for this time of year?  Around here it's mostly just spraying corn and beans in the summer.
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In Miss they are putting out burn down combined with a premerge on corn ground, about through, and rice ground. Later they will follow the same practice for soybeans. Cotton usully doesn't start until early plant pests show up in a standing crop. ear
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Re: cropdusters
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2012, 04:39:03 PM »
They dont do that around here anymore. The last guy that did aerial crop dusting used an old bubble cockpit helicopter like the ones they flew on  M*A*S*H. It was cool to watch but that farm has been gone for quite a while. What few farms that are left just use tractors. Its kind of sad.
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Re: cropdusters
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2012, 05:25:44 PM »
Back in my younger days in Louisiana I remember the cropdusters dusting the cotton and they were flying the biplanes! That was cool to watch, like you had your private airshow going on!! Boy were they loud when they buzzed over the barn and house!! :o :o
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Re: cropdusters
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2012, 02:43:46 AM »
The dusters are spraying the wheat. Due to very warm and wet weather there are being some outbreaks of some type of plant fungus so the wheat is being treated with an anti fungal.
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Re: cropdusters
« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2012, 04:40:07 AM »
I always thought I wanted to be a crop duster.  That was when I was a young bold pilot.  All it took was a Piper J-3, one Moose, and the Salcha River.  I quite flying, I no longer felt invincible.
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Re: cropdusters
« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2012, 09:09:59 AM »
Quote from: Sourdough on April 13, 2012, 04:40:07 AM
I always thought I wanted to be a crop duster.  That was when I was a young bold pilot.  All it took was a Piper J-3, one Moose, and the Salcha River.  I quite flying, I no longer felt invincible.
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Re: cropdusters
« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2012, 10:00:38 AM »
Quote from Sourdough:
"I always thought I wanted to be a crop duster.  That was when I was a young bold pilot.  All it took was a Piper J-3, one Moose, and the Salcha River.  I quite flying, I no longer felt invincible.


Isn't a moose a bit big to fit in a J-3? ;D
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