Air Tractor 802 Fertilizing and Landing on Farm Road

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Patrick Cohen

Жыл бұрын

Fertilizing rice in an Air Tractor 802 utilizing a farm road close by. This field is 2 miles long and about 700 acres.

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@JohnChuprun 11 ай бұрын

So cool. Would be amazing if you could ever make a video walking around showing your whole set up and equipment.

@jadefalcon001 10 ай бұрын

Whew, that takeoff roll felt like it took *forever*. Like someone else said, you can almost feel the weight just watching it.

@vihai Жыл бұрын

You can "feel" how heavy it is on takeoff and how light it is at landing. It would be a nice beast for glider towing :)

@user-gu4dh3du2x 5 ай бұрын

That field road looks like runway plumb 40...40 miles outta town and plumb rough! Man! Those long runs empty you up quick, fast, and in a hurry!!! Ever met a fellow 802 driver named Chris Pulliam? He flies for Miles Flying Service in Bono, AR.

@BillyClough-eg6dw 2 ай бұрын

LOL, FLIGHT NAACP-105. I KNOW THIS FROM MY CHILD HOOD. MY STEP DAD WAS A DUSTER PILOT AND HAD HIS OWN PLANES. THAT SONG WAS PRIOR AND DURING THE CIVIL RITES MOVEMENT. FIRST TIME I EVER HEARD REFERENCE TO IT. BRINGS BACK MEMORIES. OH I STILL HAVE THAT 45 Of that song and others.

@johnnyholland8765 Жыл бұрын

I worked 36 years as a machinist in aerospace now retired and have never flown. That must be an absolute thrill. They aren't called "air tractor" for nothing...

@simpo5958 Жыл бұрын

Very impressive low speed maneuverability for it's weight Love these utility birds!

@lyianx 10 ай бұрын

Military has a variant of the 802 for 'light" ground attack to deploy in places the A-10 cant go, or would be too expensive to deploy. The AT-802U and L variants. And they also have one for firefighting AT-802F. Very versatile little plane.

@wdcjunk 10 ай бұрын

6:50 - sipping coffee and checkin your phone all in a days work. lol Love it.

@FritzWeinrebe Жыл бұрын

Thanks for these videos. I am developing a 802 for MS Flight Sim 2020 and this is a perfect reference. The last 2 videos are so awesome

@Oliver-vp5pe Жыл бұрын

Will it come to the XBOX?

@pcohen85 Жыл бұрын

If you could incorporate the GPS and light bar that would be the sh*t! Flying the light bar is a pretty big part of our workload.

@FritzWeinrebe Жыл бұрын

@@pcohen85 100% agreed, the lightbar makes it so much more fun. I wrote an external application in C# to do the Spray computer and lightbar. It is connected to MSFS. Also another app to do planning on. It uses a map to draw polygons to export to the spray computer via KML file. The job is also logged and can be viewed afterwards. I am still working on it to display live. I can advance the swath numbers on the joystick. The app currently create 8 different spray patterns. Discovered another 2 to implement. But the flight dynamics of the 802 is a challenge. Never flown one.

@pcohen85 Жыл бұрын

⁠@@FritzWeinrebethat sounds awesome!! How can o help you understand the flight characteristics of the AT-802? I am happy to make a video explaining whatever it is you want to know.

@ronniemackinnon3237 Жыл бұрын

Fritz, Patrick excuse my interruption. Fritz, u have never flown an 801, have u flown any G.A.aircraft? If u have ,, Patrick could conceivably compare any similarities,,if there are any.. And highlight the varied differences. No doubt Patrick as a professional came up like the rest of us. In a G.A. aircraft Love ur vids Patrick!! Please keep em coming !

@FiveTwoSevenTHR 11 ай бұрын

That was one of the coolest landings I've ever seen!

@pcohen85 11 ай бұрын

I have another video on my channel that is a bit more extreme than that. It’s called “wingover to landing” or something like that. It was from the wilder days of my youth, haha.

@FiveTwoSevenTHR 11 ай бұрын

@@pcohen85 I'll have to take a look. I don't think I'll ever be a good enough of a pilot to do what you do haha.

@rodneywallace2984 10 ай бұрын

Living the dream right there... Coffee, good weather, big runs, no ferry and Jet-A ❤️... I don't know how you sleep at night 😂😂

@greenrxp11 10 ай бұрын

Love these videos, thanks for doing them

@josiahjosiah534 11 ай бұрын

I'm down in rice country S.E. Texas it's so awesome watching you guys fly

@lectricfence1 Жыл бұрын

My Lord, talk about turn and burn! Excellent videos. Instant subscriber. Thanks.

@jcoop8601 10 ай бұрын

Just discovered your videos and can't stop watching... Don't know why other than it's so cool to watch... Tons of questions that I would love to ask... Fascinating

@edtotman2952 Жыл бұрын

Impressive precision flying!

@dirtdobber2715 Жыл бұрын

Good video Patrick👍

@kirk189 11 ай бұрын

My FIL sprayed in ND for over 40 years much respect!

@loganireland3113 10 ай бұрын

your videos might have me looking into a career in ag aviation, seriously cool stuff

@jonathanwoodham4165 11 ай бұрын

Lotta Water in The Fields....this is the only way to get the job done when Tractors can't get in the field. Invaluable Service to the farmer.

@drive9997 10 ай бұрын

Your shadows were awesome

@i-9565 Жыл бұрын

Awesome and Far Out!

@vihurah9554 11 ай бұрын

what a job. man must have all the stick and rudder skills youd ever need

@rileyshullanberger1728 Жыл бұрын

Long runs right next to the strip at sea level.... dream work!

@arkiefyler 3 күн бұрын

Don't let the altimeter fool you. 🙂 I think these guys just set it to zero where ever the strip (or the loader truck) is.

@toyota302ho Жыл бұрын

Man, thing is putting out some product fast!

@bat__bat 10 ай бұрын

5:43 thats just too badass. Can you control the prop blade pitch? Can't you also adjust the engine rpm separately from the proppeler rpm? Love that aircraft. It can be nimble enough for t/o and landing on fairly short runways. Turns on a dime when taxi 😂 But then the hopper opens up and inhales 8000 pounds of pellets! Thats a hell of a load for even a big truck. But that little PT6 is an absolute monster and hauls that weight with some speed. 🛩️🌽🚜

@pcohen85 10 ай бұрын

Yea I can control the prop blade pitch in a few different ways. The regular way is with the prop rpm control lever which is connected to a governor that will hold the rpm wherever I set it until the engine slows down too much and the blades run out of forward pitch. The second way is when the power lever is in a certain position aft of the normal stop and that is called Beta. In Beta I have a linear control of the pitch using the power lever. Beta is only used in the ground for slowing down and reverse.

@gatorwing6231 10 ай бұрын

I used to fly RC model aircraft in a large field located about 17 miles north of Alligator Alley (I-75) on US#27. Sometimes a crop duster like this one would land & visit. I said it looks like a fun job. The pilot replied that it is not, It is like a flying tractor with no air-conditioning. (It suck because it is hot). Nowadays large (Very large) drones are spraying fields. They have programed routes using user selected GPS way points. Just fill tanks and launch. The drones automatically return to launch sites when batteries low or when tanks get low. The drones remember where they left off and return to that location & continue.

@MrSwampdawg47 Жыл бұрын

good choice in music!

@elner934 Жыл бұрын

Nice long runs.....

@NeutronSplitter 10 ай бұрын

Hell yeah, You're listening to Freak on a Leash by Korn. My favorite band. 7:14

@b43xoit Жыл бұрын

"The PT6A is a two-shaft engine with a multi-stage compressor driven by a single-stage compressor turbine and an independent shaft coupling the power turbine to the propeller through an epicyclic concentric reduction gearbox."

@terrydavis8451 11 ай бұрын

Man I should have been a crop duster. This seems like a blast.

@mccloysong 10 ай бұрын

serious aviation talent

@arkiefyler 3 күн бұрын

Takes longer to load than it does to dump! That must have been a 3 mile long field? 😂

@ces188charles6 Жыл бұрын

The roads we used were shell roads just wide enough for 1 vehicle to go down. Watched my dad turn that agwagon around many times on those roads. Just curious, was that 200lbs to the acre? That fertilizer was going down really fast during your run..

@pcohen85 Жыл бұрын

That was 125lbs per acre and I’m moving between 150 and 160mph so it comes out pretty quick. Also the back hopper empties a bit faster than the front hopper on this plane.

@Solid615 10 ай бұрын

So do you also spray/fertilize corn while listening to Korn? Lol I could spot that album cover from a mile away. Nice flying!

@FireBosspilot 10 ай бұрын

Crazy how fast 800 gallons of dry product disappears!

@pcohen85 10 ай бұрын

It comes out quick on a long run like that! Those were 20ac passes and it was coming out at 125lb per acre.

@MrFergusonrobert91 Жыл бұрын

Get it !

@ragheadand420roll 11 ай бұрын

Wow a self closing hopper We had to get up top and slam it shut Thx Was fun being a loader..driver Your average..when loaded.. for v1 is in the 70s.. rotate about 78? Nice engine glass

@pcohen85 11 ай бұрын

I don’t look at the airspeed indicator that much but I would guess with a full load it flys off around 80mph with 2/3 flap. The tail comes up around 60mph

@andygulick6085 10 ай бұрын

very cool

@chrislane2030 11 ай бұрын

AWESOME

@cropdusterpete Жыл бұрын

Got that gravy running sann

@pcohen85 Жыл бұрын

Yea man that’s a nice field. We’ve got some pretty good running here for sure. One of our fields is 1800 acres and 3.5 miles long. It’s in corn this year so I’ll get to spray it later this month probably. I’ll try and remember to bring the camera.

@cropdusterpete Жыл бұрын

@@pcohen85 that's legit. Def get a vid.

@rackets001 10 ай бұрын

Those were some seriously long passes! Imagine how long it would take driving a wheeled vehicle all that distance?!

@pcohen85 10 ай бұрын

It takes much, much longer and they have to run over the rice with the truck 😮

@fdlman93092 10 ай бұрын

I love the smell of Urea in tbe morning.

@darrenl9146 11 ай бұрын

Massive field.

@pcohen85 11 ай бұрын

One of our fields is 1800 acres and 3 miles long 😅

@MrSuperawesome5000 Жыл бұрын

Flying Ag would be fun but man you work fast! Are there abbreviated checklists you're running through in every T/O landing cycle or is the work load generally pretty light with that type of flying?

@pcohen85 Жыл бұрын

I don’t use a checklist or anything. There really isn’t much to it as far as the actual airplane flying goes. For landing I just pull the power back, put the flaps down and land. For takeoff I push the prop forward, flaps 2/3 down, lock the tailwheel and get back to work. There are other things that have more to do with the application and/or application equipment that you want to make sure is set but the airplane itself is pretty simple.

@77Avadon77 11 ай бұрын

@@pcohen85 Do you have to be careful about personal chemical exposure to the product? Or is that not a problem inside the airplane?

@pcohen85 11 ай бұрын

@@77Avadon77 yes we do have to be careful about that. The cockpits are “sealed” but I don’t trust that so much. We use the wind to make sure we don’t fly through our spray drift.

@77Avadon77 11 ай бұрын

@@pcohen85 Sealed... so does it have heat and air conditioning that's recycled inside?

@wagnergutierrez6633 10 ай бұрын

11:55 👍🏻

@rickkennerly2379 10 ай бұрын

Have you ever explained the electronic device outside, on the top of the cowling in front of you?

@pcohen85 10 ай бұрын

I haven't explained it in verry much depth. It is basically the HUD for my gps computer that tells me how far I am off my line in feet , displays my laser altimeter readout, displays my groundspeed and my pass number. The Channel Ag Aviation Adventures has a really good video on the lightbar and how the GPS system works. Its worth a watch if you are interested.

@kareemboakye-yiadom40 11 ай бұрын

You guys ever come up as far as Jefferson City? I worked line service at the airport years ago hot fueling air tractors on occasions just wondering if I ever ran into you and didn't realize it!

@pcohen85 11 ай бұрын

Nah we stay pretty local to SE Missouri

@mrtrusty101 2 ай бұрын

With only one seat in a sky tractor, how do you guys first train, like from day one are you on your own? cheers, awesome vids mate

@pcohen85 Ай бұрын

Yea that’s pretty much how it goes. My first time flying a turbine engine and my first time flying an Ag Cat was the same flight and I only had about 600hrs total time. My boss showed me how to start the engine and gave me some pointers. It takes a real aviator to do this job for more reasons than people may think!

@michaelstamper3444 Ай бұрын

Have you ever tried to fly the Air Tractor 1002?

@77Avadon77 11 ай бұрын

What kind of fertilizer are you using? Looks like miracle grow pellets? Is that actually a window in the panel that lets you see the remaining amount of contents? Also what kind of music do you listen to when you fly?

@pcohen85 11 ай бұрын

That was Urea which is 46% nitrogen. There are two windows however they only look into the rear hopper and you can’t see through them very well if the fertilizer is dusty. I listen to about everything in there. Mostly podcasts now because I’ve heard all the music. I spend between 400-600 hours a year in there so there is plenty of time to listen to whatever.

@77Avadon77 11 ай бұрын

@@pcohen85 haha I thought you might say I only listen to ACDC or something lol. But I imagine at so many hours you've heard all the music you like to listen to already. I'm that same way when I'm in my shop welding. :)

@kmg501 Жыл бұрын

Looks like you have done that a few times. 🤠

@pcohen85 Жыл бұрын

In 7000 hours I’ve made about 25,000 landings. No joke

@wdcjunk 10 ай бұрын

Do they do any special prep to use those farm roads as landing strips? Calcium chloride spray or anything?

@pcohen85 10 ай бұрын

Yea they run over it with a dirt plane and smooth it out as best as possible and then dont drive any tractors down it after that. We dont spray a dirt strip with anything but if it had grass we would spray it for weeds and fertilize it to keep the grass nice.

@roosterclaw1592 10 ай бұрын

Looks like row rice. Gotta be Arkansas.

@pcohen85 7 ай бұрын

It is row rice and it’s really close to Arkansas but not quite. Row rice is awesome because they do all the hard herbicide with the trucks and we don’t have to worry about killing all the corn, beans and cotton.

@akennyd Жыл бұрын

Goodness!! How many take offs and landings for the day?!?!

@pcohen85 Жыл бұрын

Probably 50 or so on that day.

@davidshved5720 9 ай бұрын

How do you get your edge warning lights set up like that? Mine just blink

@pcohen85 7 ай бұрын

It has something to do with using shape files and you have to turn off the light bar option to have the left and right yellow arrows displayed. I can’t remember what that option is called but it has to be turned off for the center lights to do that edge warning thing.

@sonny9608 Жыл бұрын

Random video for me. Out of curiosity I searched "Air Tractor 802 price" to see how much one of those little crop dusters cost. Holy moly I almost choked.

@pcohen85 Жыл бұрын

Brand new they are over 2 million.

@pcohen85 Жыл бұрын

Also this is the largest single engine airplane currently in production.

@juniorhopkins4280 5 ай бұрын

Hey how do you know when you run out of urea i know you are using the hydraulic gate on the 802 i can see the controller. Thanks

@pcohen85 3 ай бұрын

I usually watch the hopper lid when I am close to empty. When the fertilizer runs out the hopper lid will get sucked down tight by the negative pressure in the hopper.

@donausmus4281 10 ай бұрын

I was wondering if the stab leading edge was protected from rocks.

@pcohen85 10 ай бұрын

It is a little bit. It has a 1mm think plastic/rubber tape over the leading edge of the horizontal and also the struts that hold it up.

@sonny5069 7 ай бұрын

😎☝️.

@Dhouston1125 10 ай бұрын

why do you have a calculator on your panel?

@pcohen85 10 ай бұрын

It is there because I need to do math. There are plenty of calculations we need to do on the fly, most often having to do with spray/fertilizer calibration. For example: I have 83 acres left to spray and 349 gallons in my hopper.. what spray volume do I set in the computer to ensure I don't run out of chemical before I spray all the fields? There are a lot of variables that will throw off the calibration and I need to keep up with it throughout the entire job. The GPS computer also has a calculator function as does my phone, but ole trusty there on the panel is the easiest and most reliable source.