Aerial Crop Dusting - Australia

[conger55555]

After World War II my Grandfather "dusted" several areas around Klamath Falls, Orgon

[prps1982]

Still one of the best videos on youtube!!!!!!!!!!

[dmirti1993]

what kind of ratings do you need to fly a crop duster??

[speedy1637]

Awesome vid. I remember watching the original Bill and Hercules production about 500 times into the early hours of the morning, then going out to load ag planes for the day. Good times

[graememg]

Great video reminds me of the days I had the bonus of sitting in the back seat of a Thrush and later on an AT602 on the last runs of a days work, as a glider pilot I always enjpyed the chance to sit in on aerial spray ops.

[502AT]

Appart from a chemical distribution licence, an agricultral rating and a commercial, what endorsement do you need to be able to undertake night spraying?

[timberwooky]

Went first solo this week. I like those steep turns at low alt. (I only get to do that on emergency landing practice!!) This really shows what flyings about. I feel like I'm "back up there" when I see this one. Good one, boys!

[undergrdvoices93]

not another bill & hercules productions...

[sundaymission]

only found out today how Roy got hollywood...

[jsteinohrt]

Great video!. Very well done and great footage!. Steinohrt Agriculture.

[chris12345f]

crazy when they fly at night with zero vis, absolutely amazing, really keen on becomeing an ag pilot



[kamomeaviation]

skilled pilots and very hard job! fly safe guys!

[erniepond1]

These are REAL pilots !

Thanks for videos .

[DroklinFlint]

SUPPER!!!!

[motokid032]

They always do it big down under..Got respect for you Aussies and Kiwis!

[nikthepilot]

Do you need a pilots license For flying these Cropdusters?? I mean.... If your'e on a private farm.--- in the middle of no-where..?

[evanccsmith]

@nikthepilot Not if you want to kill yourself

[nikthepilot]

@evanccsmith Are they very hard to fly?.. 

[mrbushpilot]

@nikthepilot LOL. WTF. Planes, especially ones like these doing a job like this aren't like cars!!!! You don't just jump in and go or make it up as you go along. You wouldn't even be able to start the engine.

[nikthepilot]

@mrbushpilot i dont like how you say "YOU wouldn't even be able to start the engine" If i can start the engine of a prop. ( Pretty much every Prop.) i dont think it would be a problem... lol

[scorchingscone96]

@nikthepilot Flying a plane is no like a car...

[nikthepilot]

@scorchingscone96 IKR. lol... I was just ASKING. mkay?

[hawker800FO]

@nikthepilot i flew crop dusters for a season and yes you do need a license, if your spraying your own farm you only need a PPL. If you plan on doing it for other farms for money then you must have CPL

[nikthepilot]

@hawker800FO It was just me asking a stupid question:D But thx for the info.

[acesprayer]

i know peter jones.....hey peter!, remember reno 2002? lol! good day mate!

[andimartinez07]

por favor diganme el nombre de la cancion.

name the song please

[lzu16]

I love aviation,aviation is my life .

[dipinprint]

Im born in the american heart land and have always lived hear and love it, no im liveing in dallas and hate it. Thanks for the vid reminds me of home.

[gnarkillkicksass]

@dipinprint This is QLD Australia.

[mikeosborne83]

RIP Leland Snow - founder of AirTractor.

[LeadMasterAustralia]

Nice one Roy - been a long time (DM @ S&GS MGI)

[skat0r]

a dangerous job,.......now x10

[CrankyEater]

Ditto the comment below -- why crop dust at night? Lower wind so more effective application?

[evanccsmith]

@CrankyEater The grubs come out from under the leaves at night which makes spraying at night far more effective

[poskyflyer]

@evanccsmith and a shitload more dangerous :P wish i didnt give this up to fly commercially, my brain fogged when i heard the word embraer,airbus, boeing

[evanccsmith]

@poskyflyer Not really. Some of the paddocks over are bigger than a lot of farms. They're laser leveled and don't have any obstacles in them. No trees, power lines, sheds, etc. One paddock being sprayed right now for instance is around 6500 hectares/16000 acres.

[poskyflyer]

@evanccsmith when i did it in Saskatchewan we had the end of the field then right after a power line then a road just over the road were houses so we had to fly under the power lines and pull back hard to avoid the houses lol it was awesome

[502AT]

@evanccsmith was this spraying done on cuby station by any chance?

[dynamitediscodave]

@evanccsmith also the temperature of the day normally when this was filmed is 35-45 degrees C so the water/chemical evaporates before hitting the crop. egronomists give the company a set temp to spray between, so generally thats at night.

also to other guys, the work lights on these aircraft are bright buggers

[mi24hind]

Wow! Nice footage but I have to ask, why would you take a high risk job like aerial application and add more risk by doing it at night!? Is the risk worth the reward? Can't get it all done during daylight hours or what?

[pepecuervo505]

very good video!!

[pepecuervo505]

very good video!!!

[popeye4o]

Is it Larger than the An-2 ?

[duckhuntingmachine]

yall need any help spraying over there?

[Skippy585]

Are these planes built in Australia? And what the avg speed of spraying with these planes.

Some go 120-140mph. But I was thinking 85 knots would be typical.

[evanccsmith]

@Skippy585 Na mate they're Air Tractors, built in America. The AT802 will work between 130-160 knots.

[Skippy585]

@evanccsmith

Ok so what the minimum airspeed for crop dusting?

[Skippy585]

@evanccsmith

130 Knots, so that about 150 MPH.

[Haaser1793]

@evanccsmith You seem to know quite a bit about these planes. Do you know how many acres they can spray with a fully loaded tank?

[evanccsmith]

@Haaser1793 Depends entirely on flow rates mate

[lancewise123]

You boys are nuts............. but you do a bloody good job. 2 thumbs up.

[terrellfarms1]

Great Video. Must be real nice to have large fields. Got to love the Air Tractors. I noticed a Garrett in the Thrush. How do you like it as compared to the PT-6s. We have alot of Thrushs in our area as we are only 40 miles from the plant in Albany, Ga. where they are made. I prefer the application speed of the Air Tractors though. We still have alot of turbine Ag Cats to handle the smaller fields.

[Hurley546]

wow thumbs up for those guys!!!!

[TheCropSprayer]

Stay the best job on the planet!!!!!!!!

[dshutov]

@TheCropSprayer

you are right!!!!!!!!

[dshutov]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BalticaBeer]

Аэр трактор самолет-труженик! Видео порадовало, спасибо.

[sexcation]

I got to refuel a Turbine and Radial Air Tractor today at the airport and it was the highlight of my day. First airplane I've ever fueled, where I had to stand on the front landing gear to reach the gas tank.

[Bruno1rzs]

Incredible video.

You are really crazy. Perfect video and excellent work.

Congratulations from Brazil

[pwnage0013]

Is that a Thrush at 02:22???

[Clearly69]

We crop dusted last night for 3 hours, pitch black. Did about 300K pounds of fertilizer within 16 hours with 2 502's.

[lazarorubens]

please... what's the song name?

[lazarorubens]

please. What's the song name? ... thank's

[ThinkingManNeil]

I had no idea these guys worked in the dark; dawn or just after sure, but not having to use their lights. Holy. Fuckin'. Damn.

Label me impressed.

N.

[carlosbruschi]

What's song name?

[wes4569]

You spray after dark!!?? Wow!!!!! Your good!!! We always quit when the sun goes down....

[DrPilotRedC]

Good song

[rweag76]

evan murt flew for hazelton in the sixties he taught pat warburton and col paye to spray at night

[pawnee1000]

Muy buen video sin duda uno de los mejores videos,, muchas felicidades hicieron un gran trabajo y que bonitos aviones

saludos desde sonora mexico

[JabiruFlyer]

Best ag flying video ive seen. I am very interested in becoming an ag pilot, I live in Central Queensland and frequently see cropdusters. I am only 16 but I was wondering what licenses and ratings are required to start ag flying. Ive got a recreational pilots license and am going on to private and commercial licences later. Roughly how many hours are required to start? Thanks,

Jim Trail

[Kinglodi]

300 hours (South Africa) and a Agricultural rating, good luck!

[rweag76]

@JabiruFlyer go and see headley watt in emerald mate hell set you on the right track

[videoinmypants]

Either they are amazing pilots or suicidal maniacs! Great Vid though!

[fets1978]

Kick ass!

[jezuscwh]

what station was the footage taken o

n?

[Jimkill80]

this footage was filmed in the St George area in Queensland Australia. One of the biggest cotton farms in the southern hemisphere or perhaps the world known as cubbie station is where some of the filming took place.

[itsmonti1]

Awesome!!!! I have to give it a 10!!!

[urbantomcatburban22r]

no matter how many time i watch this, it never gets old! it's what i do and i LOVE IT!!!

[a1b2foster]

AWESOME fly vid guys! 6 stars!

[agpilot24]

Greatest ag flying video on youtube....Well done guys! You have captured "IT"! Spraying for 13 years now here in the US, I love it. When spring rolls around, I get excited still. I've always wanted to go to Australia, anyone looking for a good pilot?

Thanks again!

-Jason

[coolmunda01]

plenty of work available now Jason. Check out Ag Pilot for job vacancies...if that fails..c'mon down anyway !!

[kinekcinek]

really good ;-)

[MinMan913]

Farmers have all the fun :)

[TheMmiller1972]

Awesome......i've watched this many times..........THANKS!

[AngryBeaver295]

Crop dusting at night!!! Wow...ballsy...I don't even like to fly my little piper at night!!!

[Hondaridr58]

@AngryBeaver295 Amen bud, my Cherokee is a daytime flyer!

[Airplaneinyourass]

Airline FO.....only fly automated.....GREAT respect for you guys!!!! Specially those night flights....absolutely amazing!!!

[sparrow2a]

hello Greetings From Greece! nice video Whats the name of the song?

[filipemottasjc]

Incredible ... they can say that aviators are real! congratulations!

[powerfulfuture]

and at night too!

[coolmunda01]

I know a couple of these guy's......all crazy !!

[GECANI60]

keshtu dikur edhe ne ne KOSOVE kemi fluturue....me IDRIZIN,HIVZEN,VALDETIN,FEHMIU­N,FISNIKUN,DHE BEQIRIN

[agman4360]

awesum video thanx,just love this type off flying it just roks!!!

[Mscrystalweb]

At 64 I stood on the road and took clips of crop dusting and posted it here. But yours is very cool, just love it and I love the music. Your video was very exciting, loved it, I could feel the wind on the wings, great video, thanks!

[codybill1]

GREAT VIDEO!!! I am employeed by Air Tractor and work in the final assembly dept. Been doing it for 12 years and still love it. Sometimes we get to go for rides with the test pilots and man is it the the sweetest part of the whole job.  Best Ag Plane and Fire Bombers on the planet. We have some pretty interesting things going on at the factory. STAY TUNED!!!

[evanccsmith]

You can't leave us hanging like that! How's the progress on the 1002 going? I haven't even seen any photos yet!?!?

[codybill1]

Its going pretty good. They want it to fly to the NAAA show in Vegas this November if that tells you how hard we are working on it. We are putting in some overtime, but I just don't know if it will be enough. Maybe I can get some photos soon and if you give me you email I can send them. Have you not heard of the new 802?  Now that is going to be something.

[codybill1]

@dshutov ?????????

[dshutov]

@codybill1

Hi from Russia! Tell me please, are you spraying in night? That's really?

[codybill1]

@dshutov Yes, it is not uncommon for some to fly at night.

[poskyflyer]

@codybill1 best water bomber is by far the bombardier CL-215/415 you cant compete with it, the airtractor is one of the most fun aircraft i have flown though

[Team28Racing]

Very cool video. I work on AT and Thrush for a living at Air Repair INC in the US (Mississippi) These are some tuff airplanes!

[Flyboy207]

Hey for us bginners with no experience (yet), Are the yellow planes th AT's and the white/blue a Thrush?

[canonphoto]

fatality rate only matters if your a bad pilot! LOL

Great vid, have always been fascinated by crop dusters. You would never see it done in the night here. Very insane I love it

[kflman]

NICE

[flatbikkie]

nice clip

[tiago105]

4.33 so close to the ground !

[amediastintas]

I would LOOOVVVEEEE to fly cropdusting. best flying second to bushflying. pays way more though

[czakoo]

nicest aviation video i've ever seen ! magnificent flying, better then airshow.

these low flyaz have balls :)

[bullthrush]

Nice to see the Thrush sneek in with the ATs!

[twoaxis]

great footage, amazing how accurate you are flying

5*

greetz from germany

[transponder172]

hey i'm a cpl pilot in perth, wa. what kind of experience is required to do ag flying like this?

[MKVR32to4MOTIONTURBO]

Would also like to know, what is the min amount of hours needed?

[gnarkillkicksass]

Get a ag rating, jones air i think do it or in toowoomba most have a min 500 hours for both insurance plus its a turbine job lots of people go for it. Some though like Jones have some 206/210s that you can cut your teeth on and build some time.

[ARandomCanadian]

Im thinking of doing that after I get my commercial liscense...probably bad for your health though...

[ARandomCanadian]

nope never mind, took a look at the fatality rate, I think Ill just stick with part time pilot instructor and full time electrician :P

[BlankVideoReg]

Still one of my all time favorite YouTube videos/ Would LOVE to have a DVD quality copy and MORE!!

[MrJblogs]

tz66 I think you are right about Murt Dula. He worked in the cotton areas in NSW through to the late 1980's.

[abovetheclouds89]

Take my hat off to these pilots..

[tima9131]

i live by a field and one of these crop dusting planes when down in front of my house and it scared the heck out of me i thought he was going to crash and it was so loud!!!

[timezone66]

I beleave Murt Dula a yank pioneered night crop dusting in OZ back in the mid sixties he is apparently is a bit of legend down under

[evanccsmith]

Never heard the name before and my family has been involved in crop dusting since the 1940's =)

[cropgun58]

@evanccsmith Me either. My family has also been crop dusting since the 40's. My grandfather used to be M&M's chief pilot. Leland Snow and my him were partners at one time!! They were the first to ever put liquid out. Pioneers of the day.

[agviator]

I've been watching this for 2 years and I never get enough .

[jonny2387]

amazing skills!!! these guys are the real deal.

[the1radi8r]

Great video! Here in Delaware the fields are much smaller so doubles are unheard of, so those shots were spectacular. What was the song being played? Kudos to the pilots and the videographers.

[den0erth]

"These Days" by Aussie band Powderfinger, composed for the film "Two Hands" in 1999.

[the1radi8r]

Thanks for the reply. I was finally able to find it to add to my collection. Very interesting group.

[albertobellotto]

Crazy

[Billy982810]

Wow..

[emsed1]

Brought me to tears and goose bumps.  Wonderful.

[stan420ok]

Best vid on you tube!!!!!!! thats actually worth watching.

[MeTiX321]

how crazy they fly lolz respect

[hellspawndarkangel]

cro[p dusters are crazy, thay fly under powerlines and bridges, i think that first a/c in the film is a piper pawnee

[evanccsmith]

Yeah pretty mad stuff! Na the first plane is an Air Tractor =)

[dube85]

do they really dust at night?

[evanccsmith]

Sure do =)

[the1radi8r]

Damn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tuppy65]

legends - hollywood, jones, sev

[1albertaboy]

Wow! I'm a newly graduated CPL Multi IFR Float rated pilot, and that video was enough to seal the deal. Time to be a crop duster!

[Mbalto]

That's so awesome!

[luncheaterguy123]

I've got a private license and have been thinking about making a carrer out of it. I'd like to be a crop duster pilot one of these days.

[insaneclown271]

Parasite Drag?? ha, 1350hp can eliminate that!

[Tovkal]

What's the red flashing light in the right bottom corner?

[TheCorsican]

Jet pilots landing on aicraft carriers at night have NOTHING on these guys....

[Esuavio]

Getting a spot landing every time on a moving, pitching thousand foot platform when all you can see is the outline of the carrier and the ILS landing system with a 12 foot margin of error and the possibility of dying if you mess up bad.... and your flying a 40 thousand pound and 30 million dollar aircraft.... Crop dusting might be intense... especially at night but carrier pilots.... wow...

[krup1900]

Carrier pilots don't fly from dawn-till whenever ( day after day). Half of that time at 2 feet. The other half less than 200 hundred..By the way, the ground doesn't care how much you weigh or the cost of the A/C, it will still kill you the same, it does not discriminate. Great video guys

[CMink7777]

This video is great! I want to become a crop duster, but I'd prefer to dust in an ME 109 instead of an air tractor.

[HelluvaBadShot]

to hell with the 109, if they still had em, i'd rather have flown Air Spray's A-26 or F-86. Wicked

[mala265]

wonderfull video!!

[nandos21]

this is very bealtiful video, very nice, dont have another video best...

[relapsemedia]

great video, thanks for letting me post a video response above. now i wanna go flying! arrrr!!

[windycityflyer67]

Great video

[duallydiesel14]

Probably the best vid on youtube

[joannenclayton]

GOLD!!! Music...Perfect! Flying...Perfect!  Scenery...Perfect! I really enjoy this video so much that I have shared it with others who will appreciate planes and Australia's gorgeous country! Thankyou very much for sharing.

[gatorchild26]

i posted a video response not as competion but as we all need a soundtrack and your video was awsome just thought you might want to see what other ppl in your field of work do

[gatorchild26]

who is the artist that sings this music

[June062007]

Powderfinger. Aussie Band

[oscarlivy]

excelent!

[white0333]

best vid. them boys got balls the size of canned hams.

[tindon123]

Stunning video, great sound track and bloody good aviatiors, can't say more outstanding.

[captmaxhopper]

I'm a cropduster, airtanker pilot, musician and a video editor and I have to give this video an A+

Great job!!!!

[June062007]

Should be it was made by Professionals as part of the JARBA (Jones Air Rotating Boom Assembly) ad campaign.

[foxtrotbabii]

god you guys have an AWSOME job! wow! I'd imagine you need a commercial license to do this as a job but in the 2 seaters would it be possible to do some work experience with a PPL?

[green15ish]

Sorry bud, you need commercial certificate with high performance and tail wheel endorsement. Plus a commercial applicators license for the state your spraying in (EPA kinda stuff) you also have to remember its hard to find a pilot to work with you, every pound counts acres and these guys are generaly pretty busy. They always have 10 fields that need sprayed at the same time and they dont catch up untill the seasons over. You could get lucky though, it happens.

[wazzabp]

Bloody good pilots! My old man has worked with Field Air loading these babies, dad just loves these planes.

[biomt01]

Please, what is the name of the song playing in this video???