| Thud - 6/1/2016 21:33 I'm curious as to what you find ignorant about his comments. Seems pretty straight forward to me. FWIW crop dusters are very rare around here, helicopters get used for wheat spraying maybe one every 5 yrs, ground rigs dominate by far. I would assume a duster would circle his target field at least once before starting an application, just to check for hazards etc. Any new regs could be as simple as they are required to transit at say 750 AGL, circle once at 750 , and drop application height once the area is deemed clear. The simple act of circling should be enough to alert any drone pilot of the dusters presence. Just take a lite common sense for everyone to get along.
Thud, have you ever watched a spray plane working?
A heavily loaded aircraft might need a mile to turn around and find his waypoint back into the field, These planes fly around 150 mph across the field, nobody is going to survey the field at 750 agl, hard enough to see things at working heights, single wires, sign posts, guy wires, back in the days before autosteer, farmers would put an inch waterpipe with a flag at the other end of the field to have a mark to sight in on...and forget to take it down afterwards, I still see those killers here and there, or a single t post to mark a rock.
Most ag pilots would get a nosebleed flying 750 agl
watch this video of a lightly loaded spray plane, how would your idea of only flying over the target field work in the real world?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le0hno8b9CE
Edited by rustndust 6/1/2016 23:32
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Crop dusters in the drone zone (pic)
