Agriculture Job
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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A day in life as a crop duster pilot. It starts early in the morning when you wake up and get to the airport. First things first I must fuel up my At-802 and then add the chemicals for the field that the farmer has selected. after that we gear up which isn't real much just a head se that gives you direction. next thing you know we've taken off and are only about 500 ft off the ground going 192mph. we will fly to the field then lower to about 50ft within 500 yards of the field we decrease speed to about 120mph. and fly about 5ft above the crops that we dust. I push a button which releases chemicals to kill pests and fertilize the field. when we got to the end of the row we pull up about 50 and repeatpp . This job can take anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour all on the field size.
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after we are done with the field we head back to refuel and get more chemicals then some one else does the next field this job can go on at night too but its just a light coat of water on the crops. and that is a simple day of crop dusting but just remember its dangerous and requires a lot of flight school because its really dangerous.
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