As a pilot on the tail end of of a long career flying ag it's great to know our industry and future is in good hands with young folks like you, thanks Patrick!

Blown away by the prescision of computerized crop dusting. Thanks for explaining it all as you fly!!

I watch these pilots from the ground in Iowa for hours on end diving and ducking powerlines. What an amazing cockpit view and narrative to explain some of the strategy.

I couldn’t stop watching this even after I understood the process. The commentary was fantastic.

Just discovered this. You're a fantastic narrator. You can explain just about anything and it will be interesting.

In the early 1980's, I worked at a company that was located outside of town next to soybean fields. There was one particular crop duster pilot flying an older Grumman Ag Cat that would do wingovers to line up for his next pass over a field. He was an OV-10 Bronco pilot for a couple tours in Vietnam.

This is absolutely awesome, thanks for the ride along and thoughtful descriptions of your process!

I am a flight mechanic on S2RT34 and S2RT660 turbo-thrush aircraft in Morocco for 32 years of experience, this aircraft is robust in low altitude flight, the flight control responses are fast, I really like this aircraft and thank you to the manufacturer, my greetings to Mr jody bays

Ammonium Sulfate is 21 percent Nitrogen. This is super cool.

You are one hell of a pilot 👨‍✈️

Watched many cropdusters in action as a kid in So. Texas in the 60's; AgCats, Pawnees, Thrush Commanders when they had ground spotters in trucks that marked their swaths... even today I would stop and watch mostly AT's in action. This is the first time I got great insight into what a cropduster pilot is thinking and looking out for. Great vid! Just subscribed for more!

Nice job Patrick. Its been awhile since your radial engine days on corn in IN! Glad your doing well.

Great flying. AG pilot has got to be the most fun flying job there is!

I'm my area of Pennsylvania they use helicopters to spray the fields. Its impressive watching the pilots go in and out of the tree lines then dive on the fields to spray. Good job.

I'm a private pilot, but have always been fascinated watching crop dusting. As kid in the 50's, I was caddying for my dad on a golf course near Okanogan, Washington, and watching a kid flag for his dad when his dad hit a tree and crashed by the golf course and the plane immediately erupted in flames. Dad ran to help, but it was too late. The fabric covered plane was totally engulfed in what seemed like seconds. It wasn't long before the plane was just a framework with the pilot still at the stick. I wondered about the kid witnessing his dad die that way. So whenever I see a pilot dusting, I say a little prayer that he ends the day safe at home. My dad died a year or so after that tragic incident in a car wreck. So I know the hurt and loss that the kid must have suffered from for years after as I did. Be safe.

Appreciate the fly-along and your thoughts and commentary. I've enjoyed watching crop-dusting all my life. Stay safe my friend!

Learned a lot just watching this video! Great explanation of what’s going on

Really enjoy your videos! The running commentary is nice, great overview of what you are thinking while horsing around that heavy girl!

This is brilliant, we need more. Keep em coming!

Very cool! Thanks for the ride along.

Awesome. Also thanks for sharing some knowledges 🤙 Well, stay healthy for all of us & Safety First! ✌😉

Really Cool videos you have!! Keep them coming!

That was great! You are a skilled intelligent man👍🏼

Really interesting to see this side of aviation as well. I often see air tractors at my airport and I have been wondering how it is to fly one of these, now I have a little better idea. Thanks for posting.👍

Outstanding job - thanks so much for sharing this :)

Super cool. Thanks for sharing this. I have nothing to do with farming or anything, but as a pilot this is some really interesting flying.

Very cool vid! Neat perspective on a different kind of flying.

Wow! I had never seen crop dusting from this pov, thanks!

This was a lot of fun to watch. I imagine that before GPS it was a lot more difficult to find that field in a sea of farmland. "flying the airplane is just something I have to do to do the job, its not really something that I focus on" he says at less than 100' and 150mph. 😲

AWESOME VIDEO I LOVE TO HEAR ALL THE INFO ABOUT EVERYTHING GOING ON ABOUT THE PLANE

Great video! thanks for sharing

Awesome video…….Thanks! 👍🏻👍🏻

ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT YOU GUYS DO UP THERE TO FLY SO PRECISE. YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME PILOTS WITH COOL TECHNOLOGY 🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙

Very cool! I’ve done work on my uncles farm/ranch when they need it. And I’m also a pvt pilot, so I’m seeing the whole picture. Your skill behind the stick is superb! Do you ever make a radio call on a UNICOM or CTAF channel to broadcast that you are “maneuvering in a given area for a half hour or so? Just as a beware to other pilots? But then again, your AGL alt isn’t exactly a distance where most pilots will be flying….unless when close to an airport. Thanks! Fun to learn from you!

Man! That was fascinating! It looked like you were doing some tree trimming in the process of fertilizing.

This is so cool to watch!

Sweet, love watching these planes on ADS-B flying around the Potato/Soybean/Corn fields near me in Central Wisconsin

dang that is interesting! Awesome stuff!

Wow! The big boy! Leland Snow's 800 gallon model!! I get to watch one put out seed every fall near the end of the growing season here in Bolivar, TN when Chris Pulliam brings Miles Flying Service's 802 to town for the co-op. Even in an 802 if you're seeding or fertilizing a large field, you're landing and reloading every couple of minutes it seems. You get 2 or 3 swaths done and it's back to pick up more dry material. How many times have you had homeowners near target fields act really rude to you because you're having to turn over their house/property and they're swearin' your plane is leaking and killing every tree in their yard? Even though the plane has advanced electronics, when you strip it all down to basics, you guys are still a traditional "crop duster pilot" and I love it. How did ag-pilots do this before GPS and automatic flow control, etc.?

Great video Fly safe

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Cool! Keep em coming :)

Wow! So sick

great commentary!

Great video, love the commentary. A comment I have about Airline Flying, just because the autopilot is on, does not mean you are not flying the airplane, there is a lot going on. There are certainly lull times, just like when you are ferrying between fields, but I would not say that one flying job is “flying” and the other is not. I am a 25 year Airline guy, my family owned a Crop Dusting business for over 40 years, so I am very familiar with both. Great videos!

Thanks this was cool.

Awesome

you have a bright future doing SEAT firefighting. id love to fly an AT someday!

Hello, Patrick! Good of you to mention looking for other planes. If you're operating in AR, you probably heard about what happened to the original owner/pilot of Miles Flying Service in Bono.

Make sure Cary Grant isn't down there, too! LOL

93 gallons an hour in fuel holy smokes! You need a sponsor on youtube!

Came real close to getting a seat a few years back... life led me in another direction though. Damn I miss it every day...

"Just buy a $2,000,000.00 aircraft, bro" Dudes got my dream job though 👍

This is what I wanted to do, like to work by myself and thought I would like to fly, Lived in Thornville Ohio and watched them all of the time, people out there just liked planes period, more planes than 4 wheelers in that county"was early 90s"But went onto Newark Ohio where you can take classes , 1st time in a plane going down the runway and we hit a time warp that created A distance between us and the earth, well I truly freaked . hard to get into but was asked not to ever come back , when he joked about barrel flip it went to strait hijacking with force, never been so scared in my life , never !but I made history , only man to hijack a plane just to turn back around and land , give up ! no charges filed , no harm , no foul, just me and the pilot and poor dude had awful day at work

My dream job. I’ve yet to take my pilots license beyond Lolly gagging around.

Just got back from my first glider lesson. Hopefully one day I can be a ag pilot.

They say that a plus of the tractor configuration is the cooling it provides to the engine.

Determining load amount seems to take some extra workload and it would be nice if the software did an audio callout or some beep, or flashing light to let you know like 3/4, 1/2 and so forth, but especially empty.

Would love to see alot more angles

Hi Patrick, this is a great video; thanks for sharing. You said there is a lot of adverse yaw (even at 140 knots?!?😱); how long does it take to develop the muscle memory between your hand and feet to keep your turns precisely coordinated?

That is an awesome video. Who makes your flight helmet?

Pretty neat. Thoughts on drones doing it cheaper and safer then planes?

I'm a general aviation pilot and the turns you are making at less than 100 AGL is so scary. Do you keep track of your speed by the sound of the engine or are you referring to instruments while you are spreading? You lose quite a bit of speed in those turns. Glad I found your channel! I'm subscribing and liking!!

I spent several years when in my teens refilling spray planes at the strips, an ag cat and a Cessna I think. Guy with Cessnas I filled and a few minutes later a farmer came racing up and said he crashed, got in wires. He didn’t make it, it was devastating for me .

I want more pilot friends Too cool Holler if you’re a flyer in Denver

What plane did you cut your teeth on as a rookie ag-pilot? What did you fly your very first for-pay load in and what were you putting out?

I grew up farming 5000 acres of soybean fields. From the age of 9 to 18, one of my yearly cycle of duties was to flag crop dusters. I’ve been covered 500,000 times with chemicals they would now evacuate a city for if they found a pint of it. Not sure if the chemicals made me superhuman or if they’re just delaying their release of a horrible death… but I’m somehow, inexplicably, still kicking at the age of sixty. ✊ ✊ ✊… on wood!!

How many hours of Tailwheel and Ground school hours and dual instruction in the two seater Air tractor to be qualified

Any concerns about the wind carrying the poison over to the homeowners nearby? Probably not

Were you on or near highway 55? I was riding through and saw an airplane like yours

Patrick, great video. Still flying your Mooney?

You should put cameras on the outside so we can see the spray

Hi Patrick! Awesome video. Ihave a question for you. Torque by propeller RPM divided 5252= SHP. Is that correct? Thanks!

curious. do you need to have a chute on you, when you are banking and pitching that much?

Do you have to constantly trim that plane as you unload?

It looks like the computer is starting the spray right before you get to the field and then quits while you are still over it. Does the computer lag a little bit?

Keep doing the commentary bro.

What helmet is that? GA pilot asking because it looks cool af

“802” is this in Vermont?

Imagine what it must of been like for Air tractor pilots having to worry about all these variables before GPS and computer assisted application. I'm pretty sure the chemicals/fertilizer weren't cheap then too.

Do you own your plane?

Keith over here has a 802 2 seater

I almost hit a bird at 5500’ today. Being that close to those trees makes me pucker a bit!

Does the Farmer get a Computer Graph and or Video of your application?

I'm 600 hour TT commercial pilot from Georgia.. any advice finding a job like this?

HOW DO YOU TURN THE FERTILIZIER IN AND OFF

Looks like you are wearing a fighter pilots helmet. Does that thing have heads up display? 🤔 Hook up a bunch of cameras under and around your plane and the plane would be like an invisible plane. f35 style 🤙

These pilots get low Very professional pilot. Are you a veteran pilot?

93.5 gallons an hour?! Was that a mistake or is that really how much you're using?

How to get started?

I thought ammonium was nitrogen. It’s a plan available form I think.

lol @ the helmet.... channel much? :)

I’d like to talk to you sometime about becoming an Aerial Applicator. I’ve applied a lot of ground acres but, really would like to have a job doing the same as you. Shoot me a text if you will.

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Killing the crop already, no? Or us 😅

Air Tractor....that's cute...

Why pay to have an aircraft spread fertilizer over using a tractor? Is the ground too wet?

Funny how you Yanks like the light bar way out there. Inside on top of the instrument panel just so much better as it is an instrument. Do Airliners have their CDI way out on the nose? no they dont.

"Not a nitrogen or anything like that". Ammonium is NH4. The only fertilizing ingredient is nitrogen. Sulfate is inert.

Ok someone has to say it! How do you fertilize with commentary? Only a joke guys.