Airtractor VS Thrush
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Airtractor VS Thrush
So what are your thoughts.......................
which is the better to fly......?????
I am an Airtractor person through and through!
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which is the better to fly......?????
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So you havn't done much work in a Thrush then Troop?
The Tractors get a bit nervous on a hot day with a full load, alright if it's a straight one. Try taking your feet and hands off the controls for a while see what happens.
Thrush are a bit lower under lines, Tractors OK if you get the power back and sag a bit.
There all pretty good machines these days, it's a bit like the Holden V Ford debate.
The Tractors get a bit nervous on a hot day with a full load, alright if it's a straight one. Try taking your feet and hands off the controls for a while see what happens.
Thrush are a bit lower under lines, Tractors OK if you get the power back and sag a bit.
There all pretty good machines these days, it's a bit like the Holden V Ford debate.
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The instability you alude to Super' is exactly what makes a Tractor so agile and why we luv 'em (plus better flaps, get off better, plus..plus..plus lol ), but you're spot on about it being a Holden/Ford thing!!
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..........Best of the Best
I'll have to conceed that point, a Tractor is usually faster (ecept a Massey Fergerson). Any Aircraft that can have a 150 foot high roostertail behind it while working would have to be fast.
Personally I think a 180 spraying would out perform both machines.
Personally I think a 180 spraying would out perform both machines.
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What blue one would that be?
Seems to be yellow & blue wrecks all over the country side. Maybe thats a sign that they fly more then the other ones that come in all sorts of colours!
Yeah I know I left myself wide open there for you Cecil!!!!
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Seems to be yellow & blue wrecks all over the country side. Maybe thats a sign that they fly more then the other ones that come in all sorts of colours!
Yeah I know I left myself wide open there for you Cecil!!!!
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fitter ur right its a good thing , I like to use words to dicribe the experiance like, DROMattic DROMacising DROMacised , oh don't forget the peice of exercise equipment that every pilot has to use for a 2 week period before flying the Drom....... it's affectiontly referred to as the DROMasizer, and its a peice of 2" galvinised pipe welded to the floor in a joystike kind of way and you sit there for 2 weeks trying to bend it!
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Maxspeed - Do you need a booster seat to fly the Drom so you can see? That nose just goes on forever.
Super Cecil - Am I still in nappies becuase I don't know which blue one? If so, it has got me stuffed
I can't think what you're talking about!
By the way I am well and trooly dunny trained, been around a while now
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Super Cecil - Am I still in nappies becuase I don't know which blue one? If so, it has got me stuffed
I can't think what you're talking about!By the way I am well and trooly dunny trained, been around a while now
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I've bin round (getting rounder by the year) a while too but I'm still a learner, don't think you ever stop. Ask some of the boys around WW about the blue one, wuz a couple of years ago.
