They used to go right over my house, spraying a potato field across the road from us, when I was a kid. I loved it, scared the poop out of my mother LOL.
California 602 pilot checking in. Great shots. She’s the most beautiful of all the Air tractors, and a helluva work horse. I’m guessing this is fungicide on wheat.
I helped a friend do spraying with his Hiller G when I was in collage. I know it's a lot of hard work, and it can be monotonous, but holy cow, what I ride! I love the AG Wagons. John
In the late 60's, early 70's we used to get areal applicators to spray our row crops for us when it was too wet for ground equipment. Back in those days before GPS we had to "flag" for the pilots, one man with a red flag on each end of the field, after the plane passed over the flag man would step off so many steps toward the unsprayed side of the crop so the pilot could line up for the next pass, what a thrill that was to see that 500 hp radial engine powered aircraft coming straight at me at 90 mph. I LOVED flagging for those guys.
+tobagotb10 Yes I guess I was lucky, I am 62 and healthy as can be. I breathed farm dust up until the age of 30 and commercial building construction dust the last 30 years, I should have been dead long ago.
+tobagotb10 I spent the last 30 years working inside elevator shafts as an elevator constructor, installing and repairing all types of elevators, always hoped I would live long enough to retire, somehow managed not to end my days splattered on the elevator pit floor after a fall and did retire 2 years ago. I am either extremely lucky or there is some plan for me yet that I don't know about, LOL!
jdhumm Aircraft show, beautiful machine, great yield, do not know of the treatment performed, but it could work more to drop to give less drift, but it is beautiful. Congratulations.
jdhumm, You aren't lucky my friend. You're blessed and God has a plan for you! He has given you a lifetime to find out what that plan is. Congrats on your retirement!
He injects oil or plain diesel fuel through a nozzle in the exhaust stack so that he can see the drift in the wind to see which way the spray will drift after a spray pass.
After I got my commercial, WAY before I got into the B-1900 I drive today, I lugged banners up and down the east coast of Florida. I thought I had it made - grab a big bag of Cheetos and one of those giant 2 gallon Thirst Crusher sodas from 7-11, and go fly for 5 or 6 hours... THEN I see these dudes getting badass PIC turbine time, making what I did seem silly. Sigh.
ooh man i wish ours around here were this quiet they have some wicked lloud freaking radial engine on em and i was sleeping out in my tent under a tree and i woke up to the thing buzzing just overhead it was so loud that i thought i was on the flightt line at EAA!
+Fuzzyfox12 The Ag pilots have a button that press to injects diesel fuel into the exhaust that they use to assess the wind and drift when they are spraying a field. When they turn around they can see from the drift of the smoke cloud what the wind conditions is. And it looks pretty cool when they fly past and use the smoker.
+tobagotb10 Airtractor pilots now need to conserve toilet paper, with all the crazy tight in maneuvers they do in this amazing airplane they need to start clean and stay clean.
Manie Rossouw exactly one of my friends in north east Arkansas was loaded down completely full and ran out of runway. He hit a bump in a field and flipped multiple times spent some time in the hospital and he’s still flying to this day
You could show the farmer who's paying for the spraying the video and show them what they are paying for. They would probably respond by telling the pilot not to hit his crops with his wheels.
Those are telephone wire lines next to a major highway. And underneath them is a fence line of 1.4m high. The telephone line is only 4.5m high so there is not enough space between them for the 602.
You do realize that liquid nitrogen would just instantly turn into gaseous nitrogen and would not do one thing to the fire. The liquid wouldn’t even reach the ground.
Sound? No. Turbines remind me of those high-reving motorcycles - they annoy me. If you want real sound, get a radial. (Yeah, I know the economics today heavily favor turbines.) I still remember hearing those big radial engine planes working in the fields. And if the field happened to be close to a wooded area, that radial’s echo was simply amazing…
Yeah, a radial still sounds the best, but there aren't a lot around these days. Most radial planes had their radial engines replaced by a turbine. Parts are expensive and not easy to come by in Africa. I grew up with the sound of the radial Ag Cat's each spray season. And there is nothing that beat the sound of a radial engine and two blade prop when turning for the next spray run.
Air Tractor from Olney Texas. The one reason they stopped using radial enegines is because if it's too hot and you are fully loaded sometimes you will never take off.
They used to go right over my house, spraying a potato field across the road from us, when I was a kid. I loved it, scared the poop out of my mother LOL.
Imagine an ex AG pilot flying an A-10 in combat like that, under the radar and sneaking up on the enemy. Pretty dang cool.
Cool! I fly a 602 here in TX, never get to see it fly.....what a quiet powerful machine!
What's your top speed in the 602?
California 602 pilot checking in. Great shots. She’s the most beautiful of all the Air tractors, and a helluva work horse. I’m guessing this is fungicide on wheat.
Scott Summers 180 is the top of the yellow. I work mine about 150-160 through the field.
I helped a friend do spraying with his Hiller G when I was in collage. I know it's a lot of hard work, and it can be monotonous, but holy cow, what I ride! I love the AG Wagons. John
excellent flying, excellent video, a real sense of what is being done. Thank you. Many fly, THIS is a pilot!
In the late 60's, early 70's we used to get areal applicators to spray our row crops for us when it was too wet for ground equipment. Back in those days before GPS we had to "flag" for the pilots, one man with a red flag on each end of the field, after the plane passed over the flag man would step off so many steps toward the unsprayed side of the crop so the pilot could line up for the next pass, what a thrill that was to see that 500 hp radial engine powered aircraft coming straight at me at 90 mph. I LOVED flagging for those guys.
+tobagotb10 Yes I guess I was lucky, I am 62 and healthy as can be. I breathed farm dust up until the age of 30 and commercial building construction dust the last 30 years, I should have been dead long ago.
+tobagotb10
I spent the last 30 years working inside elevator shafts as an elevator constructor, installing and repairing all types of elevators, always hoped I would live long enough to retire, somehow managed not to end my days splattered on the elevator pit floor after a fall and did retire 2 years ago. I am either extremely lucky or there is some plan for me yet that I don't know about, LOL!
jdhumm Aircraft show, beautiful machine, great yield, do not know of the treatment performed, but it could work more to drop to give less drift, but it is beautiful. Congratulations.
jdhumm, You aren't lucky my friend. You're blessed and God has a plan for you! He has given you a lifetime to find out what that plan is. Congrats on your retirement!
jdhumm ..
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What is causing the occasional smoke from the PT6 exhausts? ingesting something without a doubt haha!
They can’t ingest anything. There is a big air filter under the nose.
Thats on purpose
My father is Lourens Kritzinger...he flew NZW for the last few years of his career...GREAT video,gave me goosebumps!
monster2680 Jip, ken jou pa baie goed.
Hy het ook jaar na jaar by ons gespuit! uitstekende pilot!
Great video ! What I find interesting is I cannot hear the buzz of the prop. When the 402's spray around here you can hear the propeller miles away.
5 blade vs 3 blade
Poetry in motion!
That is tight to land. Great skill.
My Grandfather had an old rotary Duster in the 70s it was slow this aircraft could cover twice the area in a day wow i love it
Jesus he’s spraying the entire county
Is he flying under the wires and between two poles?
Air tractors rarely go under power lines the tails are to tall but I fly my Thrush under most.
2:15 Looks like the turbine engine is blowing white smoke from right exhaust. Why? Off and on for about 15 seconds.
11:40 I learned the pilot can turn on the SMOKE, to help judge the wind drift.
He injects oil or plain diesel fuel through a nozzle in the exhaust stack so that he can see the drift in the wind to see which way the spray will drift after a spray pass.
It just meant he knew he was going to have misapplication :) 7:41
love the air-tractor and the noise they make coming over me
Kon net in SA gewees het.. Daai voëltjie klanke.. Mooi gedoen.
Your Dutch is a little off.
Looks like fun, but you best not lose concentration even for a second. Fun to watch, real skill.
Great video
Looks like a good bit of volume/high gallon work?
nocotton Think it was 30 liters per hectare. Think that's about 3.5-4 gal per acre.
After I got my commercial, WAY before I got into the B-1900 I drive today, I lugged banners up and down the east coast of Florida. I thought I had it made - grab a big bag of Cheetos and one of those giant 2 gallon Thirst Crusher sodas from 7-11, and go fly for 5 or 6 hours...
THEN I see these dudes getting badass PIC turbine time, making what I did seem silly.
Sigh.
What's the overall hourly operating costs including depreciation for a 602?
Probably well over $1500/hr, maybe even closer to $2000 per tach hour.
Is ground effect like flying over a fuzzy carpet in that plane?
EU NÃO SEI ESCREVER O TRABALHO DE VOCÊS PILOTOS DA AGRICULTURA MAIS SEI ESCREVER PARABÉNS MENINOS E MENINAS VOCÊS SÃO SHOW 👏
Setting a world land speed record.
Why did it burp smoke from exgaust just wondering
They inject an oil into the exhaust for the smoke and it's used for wind direction so they can see what the wind is doing.
Ongelooflik goed dit is ons land se beste pilots
ooh man i wish ours around here were this quiet they have some wicked lloud freaking radial engine on em and i was sleeping out in my tent under a tree and i woke up to the thing buzzing just overhead it was so loud that i thought i was on the flightt line at EAA!
Gracias por su colaboración,puede regálame práctica xedecolaje aplicando la emergencia gracias
I THOUGHT I could see a tire tread pattern on the last ear of corn I ate... 🤔
why was the engine smoking hard from the exausts @ 2:21
+Fuzzyfox12 The Ag pilots have a button that press to injects diesel fuel into the exhaust that they use to assess the wind and drift when they are spraying a field. When they turn around they can see from the drift of the smoke cloud what the wind conditions is. And it looks pretty cool when they fly past and use the smoker.
+tobagotb10 Airtractor pilots now need to conserve toilet paper, with all the crazy tight in maneuvers they do in this amazing airplane they need to start clean and stay clean.
Manie Rossouw exactly one of my friends in north east Arkansas was loaded down completely full and ran out of runway. He hit a bump in a field and flipped multiple times spent some time in the hospital and he’s still flying to this day
Seems like there are wires and utility poles everywhere...it takes skills and nerves to fly throught that !
They built wind turbine in my area. Now they have to crop dust with helicopters.
Avião é barulhento, manobras legal.
Parabéns piloto.
where is this?
9:23 Hold your breath dude! lol
what is the weight of the wing?
They could improve the whole ag flying scene by burying some power lines etc.
What is being sprayed on the wheat?
fungicide on wheat apparently.
any way your planes and pilotes are very good...!
Daai ou ken sy storie
I suppose a heavy duty plane like that might be safer if a pilot kissed the ground.
Él video estuvo muí chido
2:20 Smoke out of the exhaust? 🤔
Yes, they inject diesel into the exhaust to make smoke. Use it to check for wind direction, drift and speed.
przyjemne z pozytecznym
how do i get this job?
Este avion es so 👌
as awesome as this is, there is still nothing like the sound of round over a field !!
One time a spray plane kept flying over at Apache wye Oklahoma My nephew ran outside and pulled his pants down and " mooned" him.! 😂😅
6:04 RIP butterfly someyear-Jun 6, 2015 lol
No insecticide
Precioso un general espectacular
An ADHD crop duster wouldn't last long. Nice flying!
You could show the farmer who's paying for the spraying the video and show them what they are paying for. They would probably respond by telling the pilot not to hit his crops with his wheels.
lol yeah uh huh.
Barulho estranho, piloto Radical
Me encanta este avion
Ken iemand n Blokkies wat so 20 jaar gelede gespuit het. En wat is die song se naam aan die begin van die clip.
+Dewald Badenhorst Die song is Newsroom - Riot. Ken ongelukkig nie 'n Blokkies nie. Sal uitluister vir jou.
Excellent and beautiful
If these pilots were to fly the Military A10 Wart Hog, they would need little training in flying gun runs. They already have lots of experience.
"Little training". That was fvcking hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Впечатляет.
A10 pilots!
top demais kkk
Why jump those wires? I'd rather see them go over than to lose them under me.
Those are telephone wire lines next to a major highway. And underneath them is a fence line of 1.4m high. The telephone line is only 4.5m high so there is not enough space between them for the 602.
OK. I didn't see the fence @@ManieRossouw71
Let's get to farming and defend Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇺🇸
PeZeteL_M18 DROMADER.
Made in Poland.
Fill that plane with liquid nitrogen and use it to fight forest fires.
liquid nitrogen is not cheap man
You do realize that liquid nitrogen would just instantly turn into gaseous nitrogen and would not do one thing to the fire. The liquid wouldn’t even reach the ground.
If you havent already seen it, the fireboss is used for that purpose.
Crazy pilots we say! Lol 😅
12 months later......camera man diagnosed with cancer. ;)
Yo quiero ser piloto Agrícola
Shame, no stick back during taxi no tail wheel straight while stationary.
Great shots! Just hope you were wearing a respirator or mask or you would have gotten a lungful of that poison.
It's just fungicide. Been around it and stuff like it. It's not near what you think it is. Don't believe the hype.
Sound? No. Turbines remind me of those high-reving motorcycles - they annoy me.
If you want real sound, get a radial. (Yeah, I know the economics today heavily favor turbines.) I still remember hearing those big radial engine planes working in the fields. And if the field happened to be close to a wooded area, that radial’s echo was simply amazing…
Yeah, a radial still sounds the best, but there aren't a lot around these days. Most radial planes had their radial engines replaced by a turbine. Parts are expensive and not easy to come by in Africa. I grew up with the sound of the radial Ag Cat's each spray season. And there is nothing that beat the sound of a radial engine and two blade prop when turning for the next spray run.
Air Tractor from Olney Texas. The one reason they stopped using radial enegines is because if it's too hot and you are fully loaded sometimes you will never take off.
Thejobyoudoisablastandinonewordairtractorsarewicked
In Jesus name. Amen.
Bonjour du Canada Haaaaaaaaaa if i'm a war lord i buy 6 military version (long sword)
for strike drugs king pin and communist guerrilios
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PÉSIMA PULVERIZACION, so observa desprolijidad en la manera de aplicar ...tremenda deriva, aperturas y cortes fuera del perímetro...
Wertyuiop
Thanks for making our food unhealthy
If they didn't, pest will eat it for you, like they did 200 years ago.
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Where is this at?
South Africa, in the Western Cape province near the town of Piketberg
@@ManieRossouw71 Awesome man! Appreciate that! ❤