Flying Farmers

[sumdumguy]

How many Agrivillers are or have been flying farmers? Have you known a flying farmer? Tonight Regina Public Library is showing a movie @ 8:30. I guess our whole family and many friends have been flyers and flying farmers since World War 2 bombing Burma to many private flying licenses to a spray pilot landing on our farm many days every summer. The magic of flight has always been a big part of our lives.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Are you referring to the Flying Farmers of Saskatchewan, FFS for short? I keep seeing references to them on here, usually not in a positive way, and often used by Farmaholic. Must not be a very popular organization, since it is often used like an expletive and aimed at one of the Trolls.

[SASKFARMER]

Always wanted to get my licence. Still might through regina flying club.

They had a place at ag in motion that found planes to purchase.

We have a small municipal airport beside our house.

Got the bug when I was young from a buddy that got his.

But never went.

[farmaholic]

Sumdumguy, you guys fly mostly reconnaissance missions?

Bet things look alot different from a flying bird's perspective than a boots on the ground one.

[bucket]

They say the cost of new high clearance sprayer is comparable to a spray plane....get your license and enjoy spraying with less water and no marks. ...you could go organic.....oops....

[farmaholic]

They say the cost of new high clearance sprayer is comparable to a spray plane....get your license and enjoy spraying with less water and no marks. ...you could go organic.....oops....

Couldn't pay me enough. If humans were supposed to fly they'd have wings, feathers and hollow bones.

Actually it is amazing humans developed plane's as big as they are and get them off the ground.

Just saying I wouldn't want to be a crop duster.....what's the life insurance premium surcharge for a crop duster?

[samhill]

My oldest brother was a member here in Mb.
He loved flying and got his pilots license and farmed.

[Jagfarms]

I’ve been flying since 2002. Don’t do as much as I used to. Quite a few flying farmers in our area.

[workboots]

My great uncle was a big wig in the Canadian military back in his day. General of the Armed Forces for a short time. First Canadian to fly a jet engine aircraft.
Supposedly he broke the speed of sound traveling straight up, or so the story goes.

He stopped in at the family farm in a government helicopter one time in the 80’s

My grandfather sent an arrowhead back to Ottawa for
Pierre Trudeau. Months later he received a letter in the mail

“ How nice to see an arrow coming my way in peace from the west
Sign P T”

[sumdumguy]

We have a landing strip at the farm. Flying is exciting but is not for everyone. In this part of Saskatchewan, the weather reporting is really not good enough to prevent you from flying into bad weather. Icing is a killer. Tonight, in the show, a young pilot (he helped to make the show) who actually bought a plane from our friend, crashed it when the Manitoba farmer flew into bad weather on the way home, a short distance from his yard.

Spray plane pilots put their lives on the line every day. They fly so low that their wheels barely clear(and sometimes don’t clear) rural roads.