Releasing insects from a plane
Hi,
I am the Program Director for SITplus, a program releasing sterile Queensland fruit fly to manage wild pest Qfly in southeastern Australia. We are releasing flies currently using a dedicated Cessna Stationair with a permanently installed release machine. The machine has engineering approval for the plane it is fitted to ONLY. The machine augurs flies from a cooled box out two tubes that project below the plane.
I would like to develop a smaller release machine that would push flies out through the opening created by leaving a cargo door off....i.e. no projection from the plane. My hope is that if we could do this we could move from the need for a dedicated plane to a system where the box was latched into a plane, a release flight was made, plane lands and the system is removed. My question is, does what I propose sound feasible/legal? Where do I go to get professional advice??