Air Tractor 602 - The sight and sounds of the big 602 in action, low and fast.

Air Tractor 602 with P & W PT6A-60AG turbine engine pushing out 1050SHP spraying Boll worm in wheat in South Africa. Things happen fast with this big plane flying 6-10ft above ground at speeds up to 140 knots. The ag pilot has to be highly skilled to fly such a big airplane around obstacles in the field while doing aerial application and low flying together.

[@rustyclam238]

Imagine an ex AG pilot flying an A-10 in combat like that, under the radar and sneaking up on the enemy. Pretty dang cool.

[@TheOtherEddie]

I helped a friend do spraying with his Hiller G when I was in collage. I know it's a lot of hard work, and it can be monotonous, but holy cow, what I ride! I love the AG Wagons. John

[@gary24fan]

They used to go right over my house, spraying a potato field across the road from us, when I was a kid. I loved it, scared the poop out of my mother LOL.

[@warrenjbrown4898]

excellent flying, excellent video, a real sense of what is being done. Thank you. Many fly, THIS is a pilot!

[@jdhumm]

In the late 60's, early 70's we used to get areal applicators to spray our row crops for us when it was too wet for ground equipment. Back in those days before GPS we had to "flag" for the pilots, one man with a red flag on each end of the field, after the plane passed over the flag man would step off so many steps toward the unsprayed side of the crop so the pilot could line up for the next pass, what a thrill that was to see that 500 hp radial engine powered aircraft coming straight at me at 90 mph. I LOVED flagging for those guys.

[@jdhumm]

+tobagotb10 Yes I guess I was lucky, I am 62 and healthy as can be. I breathed farm dust up until the age of 30 and commercial building construction dust the last 30 years, I should have been dead long ago.

[@jdhumm]

+tobagotb10 I spent the last 30 years working inside elevator shafts as an elevator constructor, installing and repairing all types of elevators, always hoped I would live long enough to retire, somehow managed not to end my days splattered on the elevator pit floor after a fall and did retire 2 years ago. I am either extremely lucky or there is some plan for me yet that I don't know about, LOL!

[@Flybyagro]

jdhumm Aircraft show, beautiful machine, great yield, do not know of the treatment performed, but it could work more to drop to give less drift, but it is beautiful. Congratulations.

[@3melendr592]

jdhumm, You aren't lucky my friend. You're blessed and God has a plan for you! He has given you a lifetime to find out what that plan is. Congrats on your retirement!

[@josexavier5954]

jdhumm .. .

[@calvynvandenberg6943]

Poetry in motion!

[@jasons1192]

Cool! I fly a 602 here in TX, never get to see it fly.....what a quiet powerful machine!

[@scottsummers6357]

What's your top speed in the 602?

[@jaredtaylor7777]

California 602 pilot checking in. Great shots. She’s the most beautiful of all the Air tractors, and a helluva work horse. I’m guessing this is fungicide on wheat.

[@jaredtaylor7777]

Scott Summers 180 is the top of the yellow. I work mine about 150-160 through the field.

[@pagrichard]

That is tight to land. Great skill.

[@darrellparkhill]

After I got my commercial, WAY before I got into the B-1900 I drive today, I lugged banners up and down the east coast of Florida. I thought I had it made - grab a big bag of Cheetos and one of those giant 2 gallon Thirst Crusher sodas from 7-11, and go fly for 5 or 6 hours... THEN I see these dudes getting badass PIC turbine time, making what I did seem silly. Sigh.

[@danieldutoitlesch8468]

Ongelooflik goed dit is ons land se beste pilots

[@alanpeterson2160]

Great video ! What I find interesting is I cannot hear the buzz of the prop. When the 402's spray around here you can hear the propeller miles away.

[@GSXED]

5 blade vs 3 blade

[@matts5656]

9:23 Hold your breath dude! lol

[@monster2680]

My father is Lourens Kritzinger...he flew NZW for the last few years of his career...GREAT video,gave me goosebumps!

[@spitoinkr]

monster2680 Jip, ken jou pa baie goed.

[@andrecruywagen3520]

Hy het ook jaar na jaar by ons gespuit! uitstekende pilot!

[@whemergency]

love the air-tractor and the noise they make coming over me

[@user-kf9fv1qj9u]

Great video

[@shibumi5210]

I THOUGHT I could see a tire tread pattern on the last ear of corn I ate... 🤔

[@jesuelcarvalho260]

Avião é barulhento, manobras legal. Parabéns piloto.

[@stormchaser8472]

ooh man i wish ours around here were this quiet they have some wicked lloud freaking radial engine on em and i was sleeping out in my tent under a tree and i woke up to the thing buzzing just overhead it was so loud that i thought i was on the flightt line at EAA!

[@ednomoraes8102]

EU NÃO SEI ESCREVER O TRABALHO DE VOCÊS PILOTOS DA AGRICULTURA MAIS SEI ESCREVER PARABÉNS MENINOS E MENINAS VOCÊS SÃO SHOW 👏

[@UncleBoratagain]

What is causing the occasional smoke from the PT6 exhausts? ingesting something without a doubt haha!

[@coupalr1]

They can’t ingest anything. There is a big air filter under the nose.

[@nolacross704]

Thats on purpose

[@World-as-i-c-it]

Looks like fun, but you best not lose concentration even for a second. Fun to watch, real skill.

[@schirmeyerb]

any way your planes and pilotes are very good...!

[@kidthump]

Is he flying under the wires and between two poles?

[@coupalr1]

Air tractors rarely go under power lines the tails are to tall but I fly my Thrush under most.

[@joseagarcia4577]

Me encanta este avion

[@joseagarcia4577]

Este avion es so 👌

[@d.lewski1746]

przyjemne z pozytecznym

[@idohealthcare]

where is this?

[@skyfacer9626]

Setting a world land speed record.

[@paulvanreenen6986]

Kon net in SA gewees het.. Daai voëltjie klanke.. Mooi gedoen.

[@westerlywinds5684]

Your Dutch is a little off.

[@clayz1]

They could improve the whole ag flying scene by burying some power lines etc.

[@danielcortes9426]

Precioso un general espectacular

[@danialholt4174]

I suppose a heavy duty plane like that might be safer if a pilot kissed the ground.

[@hadrianopolis1968]

Seems like there are wires and utility poles everywhere...it takes skills and nerves to fly throught that !

[@grubbs03]

They built wind turbine in my area. Now they have to crop dust with helicopters.

[@easttexan2933]

as awesome as this is, there is still nothing like the sound of round over a field !!

[@nocotton]

Looks like a good bit of volume/high gallon work?

[@spitoinkr]

nocotton Think it was 30 liters per hectare. Think that's about 3.5-4 gal per acre.

[@brendtoconnell6119]

Pretty cool photography. Pretty close too. I sure hope you were wearing a respirator.

[@jadenolivas4270]

Él video estuvo muí chido

[@ggarland7170]

how do i get this job?

[@Jacob-we3lt]

6:04 RIP butterfly someyear-Jun 6, 2015 lol

[@GSXED]

No insecticide

[@vgrhamilsamaparece6226]

what is the weight of the wing?

[@mamdouh15551]

‏Excellent and beautiful

[@dannypalmer7701]

One time a spray plane kept flying over at Apache wye Oklahoma My nephew ran outside and pulled his pants down and " mooned" him.! 😂😅

[@rayneysdad4069]

Is ground effect like flying over a fuzzy carpet in that plane?

[@baloobear70]

Впечатляет.

[@rubendariofernandezpernet3937]

Gracias por su colaboración,puede regálame práctica xedecolaje aplicando la emergencia gracias

[@jesuelcarvalho260]

Barulho estranho, piloto Radical

[@sanfranciscobay]

You could show the farmer who's paying for the spraying the video and show them what they are paying for. They would probably respond by telling the pilot not to hit his crops with his wheels.

[@socknetea]

lol yeah uh huh.

[@soundslikebstome]

An ADHD crop duster wouldn't last long. Nice flying!

[@jettelo]

Why did it burp smoke from exgaust just wondering

[@mick71281]

They inject an oil into the exhaust for the smoke and it's used for wind direction so they can see what the wind is doing.

[@sanfranciscobay]

If these pilots were to fly the Military A10 Wart Hog, they would need little training in flying gun runs. They already have lots of experience.

[@carlosfernandez6766]

"Little training". That was fvcking hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@tfwj69]

A10 pilots!

[@willkillmore3396]

What's the overall hourly operating costs including depreciation for a 602?

[@traviseggl3794]

Probably well over $1500/hr, maybe even closer to $2000 per tach hour.

[@wolfpack9688]

Jesus he’s spraying the entire county

[@marcelodelimalima2859]

top demais kkk

[@birdwing98]

2:15 Looks like the turbine engine is blowing white smoke from right exhaust. Why? Off and on for about 15 seconds.

[@birdwing98]

11:40 I learned the pilot can turn on the SMOKE, to help judge the wind drift.

[@spitoinkr]

He injects oil or plain diesel fuel through a nozzle in the exhaust stack so that he can see the drift in the wind to see which way the spray will drift after a spray pass.

[@mynickels]

It just meant he knew he was going to have misapplication :) 7:41

[@dewaldbadenhorst5603]

Ken iemand n Blokkies wat so 20 jaar gelede gespuit het. En wat is die song se naam aan die begin van die clip.

[@spitoinkr]

+Dewald Badenhorst Die song is Newsroom - Riot. Ken ongelukkig nie 'n Blokkies nie. Sal uitluister vir jou.

[@Stubby0266]

What is being sprayed on the wheat?

[@westerlywinds5684]

fungicide on wheat apparently.

[@stanislaw_m]

PeZeteL_M18 DROMADER. Made in Poland.

[@user-kr9lt6vz7r]

Daai ou ken sy storie

[@carlosfernandez6766]

Where is this at?

[@spitoinkr]

South Africa, in the Western Cape province near the town of Piketberg

[@carlosfernandez6766]

@@spitoinkr Awesome man! Appreciate that! ❤

[@Fuzzyfox12]

why was the engine smoking hard from the exausts @ 2:21

[@spitoinkr]

+Fuzzyfox12 The Ag pilots have a button that press to injects diesel fuel into the exhaust that they use to assess the wind and drift when they are spraying a field. When they turn around they can see from the drift of the smoke cloud what the wind conditions is. And it looks pretty cool when they fly past and use the smoker.

[@tiredowalkin]

+tobagotb10 Airtractor pilots now need to conserve toilet paper, with all the crazy tight in maneuvers they do in this amazing airplane they need to start clean and stay clean.

[@badbaileyd]

Manie Rossouw exactly one of my friends in north east Arkansas was loaded down completely full and ran out of runway. He hit a bump in a field and flipped multiple times spent some time in the hospital and he’s still flying to this day

[@dannypalmer7701]

Crazy pilots we say! Lol 😅

[@haroldoacevedo803]

Yo quiero ser piloto Agrícola

[@user-qp1ei6ud4u]

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[@ChristopherBix]

Great shots! Just hope you were wearing a respirator or mask or you would have gotten a lungful of that poison.

[@sstroh08]

It's just fungicide. Been around it and stuff like it. It's not near what you think it is. Don't believe the hype.

[@flyingdutchman2918]

Why jump those wires? I'd rather see them go over than to lose them under me.

[@spitoinkr]

Those are telephone wire lines next to a major highway. And underneath them is a fence line of 1.4m high. The telephone line is only 4.5m high so there is not enough space between them for the 602.

[@flyingdutchman2918]

OK. I didn't see the fence @@spitoinkr

[@matthewb1973]

2:20 Smoke out of the exhaust? 🤔

[@spitoinkr]

Yes, they inject diesel into the exhaust to make smoke. Use it to check for wind direction, drift and speed.

[@6j6666]

Let's get to farming and defend Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇺🇸

[@brianmitchan9306]

Thejobyoudoisablastandinonewordairtractorsarewicked

[@stephenouma]

Fill that plane with liquid nitrogen and use it to fight forest fires.

[@doodleydude7833]

liquid nitrogen is not cheap man

[@WoodyONeal]

You do realize that liquid nitrogen would just instantly turn into gaseous nitrogen and would not do one thing to the fire. The liquid wouldn’t even reach the ground.

[@PorgChob]

If you havent already seen it, the fireboss is used for that purpose.

[@Longslyde1]

12 months later......camera man diagnosed with cancer. ;)

[@AdamTh1]

Sound? No. Turbines remind me of those high-reving motorcycles - they annoy me. If you want real sound, get a radial. (Yeah, I know the economics today heavily favor turbines.) I still remember hearing those big radial engine planes working in the fields. And if the field happened to be close to a wooded area, that radial’s echo was simply amazing…

[@spitoinkr]

Yeah, a radial still sounds the best, but there aren't a lot around these days. Most radial planes had their radial engines replaced by a turbine. Parts are expensive and not easy to come by in Africa. I grew up with the sound of the radial Ag Cat's each spray season. And there is nothing that beat the sound of a radial engine and two blade prop when turning for the next spray run.

[@MultiTurbospeed]

Air Tractor from Olney Texas. The one reason they stopped using radial enegines is because if it's too hot and you are fully loaded sometimes you will never take off.

[@kiwi6444]

Shame, no stick back during taxi no tail wheel straight while stationary.

[@sugeyrugel517]

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[@mauriceouellette7514]

Bonjour du Canada Haaaaaaaaaa if i'm a war lord i buy 6 military version (long sword) for strike drugs king pin and communist guerrilios

[@johnwilsonpanaligan4921]

In Jesus name. Amen.

[@hud86]

Thanks for making our food unhealthy

[@westerlywinds5684]

If they didn't, pest will eat it for you, like they did 200 years ago.

[@meaereos1311]

PÉSIMA PULVERIZACION, so observa desprolijidad en la manera de aplicar ...tremenda deriva, aperturas y cortes fuera del perímetro...

[@marcosanjos3849]

Wertyuiop

[@caiocesargemelli551]

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