How successfull is weed spraying with airplane?

[CANOLANAZI]

We'll from my experience very unpredictable, fence lines or not...it has floated across major grids and highways and knocks out 50 acres of a neighbors field...great option for fungicides with no wheel tracks...

[groundspeed]

When it comes to insurance i have a friend that is an ag pilot and he says the deductable on his drift insurance is 20000 dollars out of his pocket before insurance kicks in and has never used it because most mishaps are not that big. Dont blame those guys for not wanting to do it.

[CANOLANAZI]

ya pilot love bushes, fenclines and powerpoles when they are spraying because of drift concerns???

[freewheat]

Canolanazi. I didn't say pilots like
bushes. Straight treelines matter not to
them though, they fly beside them, and
climb over them at the ends, no biggie.

Power pole are different. They have this
string strung between them that pilots
tend to catch on once in a while!

[jensend]

i regard spray drift the same way as my neighbors regard my cattle going through their crop. if my fences aren't up to the task my cattle shouldn't be there and if the wind is blowing towards my yard, hay or pasture they shouldn't be spraying.

[Hopperbin]

650-65R38 , 100 foot boom. So crop damage really is minimal maybe looks worse. The rut under water will smooth out, its the ruts in the surface mud give problems, can harvest same direction as spray ruts, and next year will be gone again until do it all over again.

[sumdumguy]

Aerial application is atough job. Thelanes have
improved a lot. GPS information is recorded and
can be reproduced in court to prove every pass
and turn a pilot makes, which direction the wind
is coming from and where your chemical is going.
I talked to my aerial applicator friend and they
have sprayed hundreds of thousands of acres for
ten years and have had one complaint. turned
out the complainer sprayed his own crop twice
with way too heavy rate.