The reports just on Cessna Agwagon incidents alone, make for interesting reading. "Cowboy" seems about right in Sheryls description, if some of these incidents are anything to go on.
She could have also mentioned, "an innate ability to sense or remember exactly where every power line is", as another pre-requisite of the job...
What amazes me is the ability of so many crop-dusting pilots to escape, from crashes that would normally be fatal.
Maybe it's just the low crop-dusting speeds that help... or they either have super-quick reflexes... or more lives than a cat...
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