.......pigdog............ obviously you missed the part about 'energy management' in a heavy jet endorsement lesson...................0.5 tonne plane will get out of the way of almost any hazard with a quick instant response from the controls...........400 tonnes or even 5 tonnes for that matter simply will not be that agile & turn at a far greater arc now wouldn't it be interesting to see an AG plane cut off a 747, the Capt might choose to go right thru him seeing as he would have scant little time to do much else !.....anyway am not going to debate about that all of this is just opinions..............if you & most of the others out there think that all AG operators out there are playing by the book then you ought to check on the gnomes at the bottom of yr garden they too are laughing !
Capt wally :-)