Cropdusting Mission

[TonyM]

G'day All,

Just for entertainment you might enjoy this
little mission, done by Trev(Treetops) over at OZX

http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/topic/...crop-dusting-3/

Just requires



FTX NZNI

Tony's Place scenery( ag strip near Whakatane)

http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/...-place-in-nzni/



Alabeo C188B AgTruck
ZK-DPA Texture by Richard Louis

Give it a try, quite entertaining

Enjoy

Cheers

TonyM

[deeknow]

Nice one Tony, definately gonna give this a crack

[Ian Warren]

Beers after work at Tony's place , I'll be in and give it a spin

[deeknow]

Hey Tony. Tried the mission tonight, I do have Mike's Hamilton and Taupo installed and when I get to "Tonys place" I do see a Blue tanker and a red jeep, but when I fly down to the spraying location there doesn't seem to be any guide vehicles, I spray the entire field then down to Optotoki and mission is incomplete? Any ideas?

[Ian Warren]

I promised to look at this ... i did have Tony's place install yonks back .... this should be interesting .. wonder how a AN-2 would go .. still the C188 if required

[deeknow]

Aha, got it sussed, I didn't realise I had to have the "Tonys Place" scenery installed as well as the mission itself. Added that, as per Tonys instructions, who reads those right? :-) and bob's your aunty, there's the guide cars etc.
Was a fun mission, I think the toughest part of all was trying to find the darned Opotoki airstrip at the end, see if you can spot it in this pic I took tonight?

[Ian Warren]

Just shut me FS PC down .. got the scenery installed , to find an airstrip .. and the farmers complain about the lack off rain .. just look how plush those fields looks

[TonyM]

Hey Deeknow,

Glad you got it sussed, a bit of fun innit ???

Can you imagine the excitement as an 8yr old, to have planes touching down outside
your bedroom window.

First year we had Tiger Moths ( hopper in fwd cockpit) then
C185s with the hopper in behind front seats.

Glad you enjoyed it

Cheers

TonyM

[TreeTops]

Hey all. Tony told me on our Friday night OZx flight that he had posted here about my new mission. Thank you very much for giving it a try and I hope you enjoy it.

[Ian Warren]

Hi ya TreeTops , welcome to the NZFF forums , took you a while for you to get here .. guess to many trees in the way

[deeknow]

QUOTE (TreeTops @ Jun 23 2013,12:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hey all. Tony told me on our Friday night OZx flight that he had posted here about my new mission. Thank you very much for giving it a try and I hope you enjoy it.

Hey Trev. Sorry mate I missed the mention in Tony's original post that you had created the mission. Jolly good job, was a lot of fun.
Neat back-story and trickier than it seems. Having the cars as markers on the field was a good idea.

[TreeTops]

Thanks for the comments guys.
I originally come from a farm and it was a big deal as a young lad to watch the aerial spraying after school.
I started making these crop dusting missions when the first Alabeo AgTruck user pictures where being posted of spraying at 500ft. Clearly people had no idea of what crop dusting was all about.
So this is why I started this series of missions to provide an environment and basic instruction of spraying a field.
If people keep enjoying them I will try to keep making them.
Suggested places would be welcome as well.

[Naki]

Dont have FS installed at the moment but I ve tried some of the past missions. Keen to have another go eventually

Pity Alabeo don't make a topdressing Agtruck or Pawnee Brave instead of a sprayer.

I'm off a farm too and our neighbour (and many years before that on our farm) there was a strip. Topdressing Agwagons and Fletchers were a common sight. I was lucky to be in a Agwagon on topdressing run around the Taranaki hill country. Before my time, but on our strip we had Tiger Moths and Cessna 180s. Apparently a Tiger Moth got its tail wheel it tangled in a fence once at the end of our strip and flipped.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (TreeTops @ Jun 24 2013,1:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I started making these crop dusting missions when the first Alabeo AgTruck user pictures where being posted of spraying at 500ft.

Trev , Sure they must spaying the local locust cloud swams , there was a series about what they do and techniques used years back , i do have it here as you said "Clearly people had no idea of what crop dusting was all about." be an interesting addon to this link .. i'll dig it up .

[TreeTops]

There could also be missions like spraying for mosquitos around swamps. Know of any in NZ?

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (TreeTops @ Jun 24 2013,6:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

There could also be missions like spraying for mosquitos around swamps. Know of any in NZ?

Yes we do have areas , but left alone .. in Banks Peninsular , Lake Forsyth in by Little River 5/10 km east of Lake Ellesmere is renown for swams . .. small lake in a valley .. be an ideal spot .

[TreeTops]

Looks like an interesting spot. What are they doing at the mouth of the river? redirection works?

[Ian Warren]

It could more for irrigation , very swamp low ground .. out this way is currently flooded and complaints about not digging relief channels could be anything .

[TreeTops]

Took a flight around this lake last night and its not suitable since it had steep cliffs at the waterline. Needs to be a shoreline which is very flat for low flying.

[dbcunnz]

QUOTE (TreeTops @ Jun 25 2013,4:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Took a flight around this lake last night and its not suitable since it had steep cliffs at the waterline. Needs to be a shoreline which is very flat for low flying.

Try the Wairau lagoon at the mouth of the Wairau river just East of NZOM and NZWB it has been Helli sprayed for mosquitoes a few years ago but would be open for AG planes to spray there is even a topdressing strip just to the South of the lagoon if you can find it