A Ride Along in a Crop Duster Ag Helicopter Applicator

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Sunrise Cooperative has teamed up with Sayre Helicopter to apply fungicide again this year. Both companies recently held a field day to show the advantages of helicopter application and invited The Ohio Ag Net's Ty Higgins to ride along for the demonstration.

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In the 70s & early 80s I grew up in Dothan Alabama, a farming county in Alabama...Houston Co, to be exact.
Watching the crops getting dusted reminds me of when I was a young boy.
I used to see planes dusting peanut field or a Watermelon field...I would always get excited watching & my dad would always pull over on the side of the road by a field & we would watch the pilot dust the fields.
Man, this brings back great memories of my childhood & my dad.
My dad was the Greatest Father Ever!!!
I sure do miss him a lot.
Much love from Mobile Alabama.

randymiller

I love the response of the seasoned pilot to your question if he ever gets "sick" of cropdusting and flying helicopters: "Not really! I can't see how" and this big smile on his face!! This is the best job for pilots! Such a great training on the controls, for precision and timing... not to mention these precise landings on the trailer for refilling the tank with the chemicals!! Fantastic!!

RCCopterLove

I worked for South Eastern Boll weevil Eradication program here in West TN they had 1. Helicopter spraying & HE freaked me out just watching him spray he did like a swoop&spin sort of pass. He went almost strate up & spin turn & right back into the field like if you wave your hand side to side with an upward motion @ end of the wave

timmywade

I could tell it was a Bell by listening to the radio. LOL

flyingdutchman

Thats one hell of a chopper to spray with! Cool!!

Foryourinfo

Would have been nice to see the pilot controls during the maneuvering... especially the light-bulb turn.

NFlight

It’s interesting to me that they were allowed to ride with the ag plane while it was dispensing chemicals but they can only ride with the ag heli if it’s dispensing water

mattverachtert

Any advantages to having a jet ranger compared to say a Robinson? Or is it just a personal preference?

pstreaks

That was awesome saw one of those sprayer helicopters in Celina Ohio out in the country where I live by Vantilburgs farms

collinwilliams

The aircraft is the Bell 206A Longranger.

EmergencyGuy

Very nice! And I love the Bell Ranger.

southernimager

Two questions:
1. What is the price? High clearance sprayers go for $400, 000-$500, 000, if its in that range or less it would be great to own one.
2. Why fly under the power lines when you can just spray alongside them?

JT-girx

audio needs fixed, might have been a great video but the mic clipping killed it

MichaelSmith-eqlf

That is an amazing helicopter. Nice video.

carlosariasquiros

Very disappointed with the choppy audio, looked very cool however. It does seem like the prop downdraft would be a disadvantage for crop spraying with a chopper vs plane?

repairfreak