At first crop dusting is definitively not a starter job!
Secondly crop dusting needs in the most countries a special rating or training, which will usually cost more than a FI rating.
AG is one of the most difficult helicopter jobs and the accident rates are very high. Flying very low and slow with large booms on both sides is very special. It's a job with a long day. Every unseen obstacle could be your last...
Spraying chemical is in our new world now unliked, the market goes down.
Spraying chemicals is not a healthy job. May be today the common chemicals are not the same poisons like some years ago, but some good guys i was knowing some years ago died on cancer in young years. And be sure in some parts of our world they have up to today the same poisons.
Last edited by tecpilot; 29th Apr 2007 at 17:01.