Crop Dusting with Helicopters

No, we are slap bang in the middle of the winter. So far it was not to bad.

There is a lot of fixed wing ag operations going on with almost no
rotorcraft AG work.
A friend of mine had a Enstrom with which he did some AG work.

They use helicopters a lot in game capturing operations mainly 300's R22's
and the odd Jet Ranger.

Not a very big industry , I posted some figures on licences and aircraft in
another thread about a week ago
under "Is this forum still operating".

I am mainly a recreational pilot. Fly my R22 over weekends. We also do a
helicopter trip once a year to
some nice locations in South Africa. This year we got invited while flying
past "Waterloo" who is the main
military airfield in South Africa to do a fly past along the runway. We
were 5 helicopters ranging from a R44,
R22 , Bell 47 and two Kompresses which is a Italian experimental.
Rocky might still remember the place. In the earlier years they locked you
up if you even got to close.

I also did a bit of game capturing helping my brother who is in the hunting
business.

I am also involved in experimental aircraft, just finished a all metal 2
seater low wing aircraft using a converted
Suzuki car engine (1600 cc 16 valve) that I converted to electronic
ignition and fuel injection. We already did
a few test flights and everything seems to be OK.

Want to get that out of the way because I have a Helicycle turbine project
on the way.

Regards

hennie


"SHIVER ME TIMBERS" wrote in message
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Hennie Roets wrote:

Hey Hennie..... Nice to hear from you again.

So is today the first day of winter over there in your neck of the
woods.

Today's the longest day over here.

So out of curiousity.... What sort of AG operations do they
have over in South Africa and Africa in general.

Is it a big or small industry.

You know me..... I'm curious, so I'll ask you if you feel up to doing a
little narrative about your flying activities, what sort of things do
you do in the aviation industry, etc., etc., etc.