scratch one crop duster
 

I was going up I-40 in Arkansas trying to drive and watch the crop duster, it disappeared and a couple minutes later I saw this
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...g33540/4-3.jpg
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...g33540/2-1.jpg

when was this...? we saw one go diwn last year on that same part of I-40.

last week, wednesday I think...... the guy at the place I delivered said they crash all the time around there

My h has has the pleasure of loading these crop dusters, I think I read about an old crop duster crash, but the pilot walked away.

Anyhow..... h loves flying and does anyone know how much they make??

Well something like 1000.00/hr. depending on how fast they can load the planes. and no Im not kidding. If anyone is interested they are hiring two more pilots.

H is in flight school, hard while he was OTR, but with him home now, He should be doing his solo flight any day. He can't wait to finish so he can fly us around. To the other pilots out there he was in 24 knotts (sp?) winds and doing flips or crabbing... whatever it is when you come in at a very steep and sideways angle to the runway and turn it at the last second.

The proper technique is to crab just up to touchdown, then go to a wing low into the wind. Unless you fly a Cessna 190 or 195 or a B-52. If memory serves the 190,195 could hande a 15 degree 10 knot crosswind with it's "crosswind gear" - the wheel assemblies were on a pivot. The B-52 pilot could 'dial-in' how much crosswind there was and he could crab all the way to the ground.

Is it still called crabby when you are at a very steep angle? Not parallel to the ground but angled?

anyway not sure the exact type of plane cessna for sure only that it's Sierra Tango call sign. The Sierra Kilo that he usually uses was busy. The tango has some niffty GPS hardware.

Cessna 172? maybe, I schedule the flights online so I should know this but I don't pay better attention.

yeap, still called crabbing.

I doubt he's flying a 190 or 195 they were tail draggers with radial engines. Made back in the '50 and '60, don't even know if there are any still flying.