Due to the nature of Ag work it is hard to give a figure of an "average" day, because the work is so varied, and like any thing involved in the rural sector you are at the mercy of mother nature, and also now that the aircraft are becoming larger it is reducing things a bit when you are having a quite period,but the figure of 170 hrs a month is quite common when doing seasonal work and in alot of cases alot more than that, as far as 1200 a year go in australia that figure would not be attained by alot of pepole on a regular basis, but in new zealand it mosy certanly is. Take off/landings is the one that has the most variables in it ie. weather you are spraying or doing solids (fertilizer) work also what capacity the machine is. Some examples would be, say if you are spraying broad acare work in say a AT 502 and you went all day you might do any thing from 15-30 loads. On fertilizer one example is when the boys used to take 502's up to Malaysia and 100+ loads a day was the go!
Any one got anything else?? what about you boys back in NZ, comments??
