It gets to hot during the day, engines and wings don't perform very good. And bees are in the hive at night. Saving bees is critical to many crops. The night flying isn't as bad as it looks but it does take extreme caution and careful training.
@@stevenford4313 Used to mark for the old man when he flew nights, watched him near fly into a power line one night, scared shit out of me. Him as well.
Looks pretty stressful. I remember my first night landing on a familiar runway on the approach when everything is black I totally “forgot” what was in the darkness. I knew in my mind it’s an empty field but my instinct told me to stay high lol. I can’t even imagine what this would feel like buzzing low over unlighted fields all night.
I rode in a Thrush one night sitting next to the pilot. He was flying a modified Thrush from Serv Aero engineering with a Wright 1820 on the front. It was one wild ride and no one was happier than me. When you're young, 10 feet tall and bullet proof you'll do stuff like that. The Thrush is wide enough in the cockpit and I was a skinny kid then so I could just barely squeeze in there with the pilot. Of course, had we crashed I would've been through crew along with the pilot, but I wouldn't trade that ride for all the treasure on the ocean floor. I spent 9 years working on Air Tractors, AT-301's so my respects to you for providing much needed services. Cheers!
When I got back from Nebraska I went looking for a spraying job in California. Stopped off at three different Ag strips where i could easily get a seat if I wanted to fly at night. I asked the same questions at the three different places. Got shown their night equipment, and was told about how safe it was because of all of the lights on the plane. My final question was, what happened to your last guy? Almost word for word the answer was, "Oh well...he got killed." My wife said, you're not flying at night. I replied, hell, you don't have to tell me that twice! I suppose that a guy could get a lot of acreage at night, depending on the crop, and if you remembered exactly where the wires were on any particular field. I don't think my memory could remember all of the obstructions.
THAT is some B-B-Big Balls right there. I flew civil for about 14 years- and never in my wildest nightmare would I have thought of trying what you do. Although I never once had an accident, I came damned close a few times- and mostly through no fault of mine. This kind of flying just seems to me to greatly increase those nasty chances. You are Amazing. God bless ya.
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Only in large fields that I knew like the back of my hand. It's already dangerous, I just can't see pushing like this in the dark. Yeah if you know a field like the back of your hand I suppose it isn't a big deal. Those lights are super bright.
As far as navigation and accuracy goes, is this done strictly based on light bar and altimeter? I'd also assume this is only done on fields where you've had long experience and complete awareness of surrounding obstacles?
This is all well an good until the owner figures out how to make you work under FAR 91 and makes you work 20 hours straight and you're exhausted... Keep safe, and thank you for the food 👍
Awesome video. Always wanted to share the experience, bought a ContourHD but it did not film well at night. What camera are you using? Thanks for bringin back those memories. Enjoyed it too much.
creep creepy crops... and an amazing flight. Would you mind If I used a section of your video for a video I'm making about crops and aliens, it's non commercial video I'm making for a laugh and I'd credit you in the description, but no worries if not, thanks!
Ha, video just don't do justice to the kind of situation that pilot is actually in. Human eyes are better at night than camera (non-infrared ones that is).
