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| Until GPS aerial spraying required each pass to be next to the previous pass to see the fog settling or with flaggers on the ground. Today with GPS I observe much easier turns and so passes aren't often adjacent. So from the ground to the causal observer, the location of the next pass isn't predictable.
I recall a situation where a friend and his family and house was sprayed with a herbicide. Also sprayed his organic (and very weedy) melon patch killing the cantaloupes to be harvested for the farmer's market the next week. Cost the pilot his spraying license and the value of the produce killed. This was a couple decades ago. Seems the pilot saw the weeds next to the farm he was spraying and decided to take them out though they weren't part of the farm being sprayed.
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update on spray plane incident
