Cool video Scott. I was out photographing a crop-duster in the Palouse last weekend from a public road that ran at an angle to some canola fields. I"m curious to know if I was compromising or could compromise a pilot's safety by doing this. Under what conditions would it be safe and not safe? I was standing next to my stopped car in the road as the crop-duster made several runs towards us. He was pulling up and stopping spraying at maybe 50-100 yards from me. I love photographing crop-dusters but want to make sure I'm not causing any issues. Thanks so much.
This is a great video and well edited with the right amount of chat. Love your work Scott...Also one of my favorite aircraft...my dad used to fly/teach using them in the Australian Army......
I was a mixer/loader/fueler for a family crop dusting team in Ankeny, IA back in 1984-86. Great money at the time and it paid for my flying lessons too! One of the brothers had an Ag-Cat with the radial engine. Your turbine unit here sure has a different sound than that radial! Great flying!
My dad used to fly Ag Cats and I think he ran a turbo Thrush for a while, back in the early 1980s. Helluva plane! Though I gotta say it really doesn't look right with anything other than a real engine, you know a radial one.
I've been a Coug since the mid-80s and fell in love with the Palouse when I first saw the area. Love the footage and my respect for your skill in flying over that terrain is off the charts. Incredible video (I just found this today . . . 4 years late) and I will look for more.
Man, all that's pretty fancy bling. My father had an old underpowered Agwagon, no helmet or fancy visor, light bar, or flat fields. '70s was still old school. Looks way easier now.
A turbine powered biplane, now ive seen it all. Well to be fair the russians did have a jet powered biplane so... i guess this is more sensible? Badass either way. I had an opportunity to feed a crop dusting operation 28% for a whole day once, Those airtractors or whatever they are called, the ones you see everywhere, they are absolutely massive. They pull right up next to the truck turbine roaring and they are SO much bigger then a cessna.
I am from eastern Washington, so seeing this was awesome.. I was wondering how ya knew what fields to do, but then i noticed the GPS system shows you what swaths to do.. / done.. pretty neat.. great flying..
Respect :) So close to the ground. One bad move could be catastrophic. Also, flying so low doesn't allow any time to mitigate any mechanical problems. At the same time have to track to spray the entire field? It's not like you have a GPS map on the plane. How do you even know where to begin and stop. Wow..