Apr 30 (edited) • Cockpit Careers
The Ag Pilot or Crop Duster
Most aviation careers have a clear path. This one starts with a crop duster and ends somewhere few pilots ever reach.
The agricultural pilot flies lower than almost anyone else with a licence. Fifteen feet off the deck. Sometimes less. At speed, over fields, alone. The aircraft is loaded with chemicals that require precision to the metre.
It is one of the most technically demanding forms of flying in existence.
The job doesn't appear on career day posters. There are no airline cadet schemes. You find your way in through agricultural operators, banner-towing outfits, or aerial survey companies, and you build hours in conditions that airlines would never permit.
Many of the best pilots in the world came through this route. They learned to fly in the real world before they ever saw a simulator.
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