Advice on night flying operations

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Thanks to all that responded!

Here are some answers to some of the questions that came up:

PCL 128 and PA31Ho - It's a private company hired by Sarasota County.

air chompers - I don't know what kind of NVG's they use.

navigator72 - They need to spray at night (over rural areas) when the mosquitos are out flying around. In populated area's they use trucks to spray. (Using the trucks I think they spray the larva. By air they spray the mosquitos directly.)

 

[9GClub]

Why don't they do this sort of thing in the day?

Aw geez party pooper.

 

[low-n-slow]

This reminds me, seems like a couple of years or so ago I remember seeing an ad somewhere for a Bell 206 (I believe) pilot spraying mosquitos making 12 bucks an hour for the Volusia county mosquito control in Florda. I believe they were primarily doing daytime larvacide work.

 

[Metro752]

They are when you only have two T hangars and 10 other airplanes out on the ramp that need to be A) pre-heated or B) deiced and you have all kinds of scheduled opps to get out. Try changing a cylinder out in the cold.....they are bad enough.

Yeah, but that's what makes it fun. I'm just crazy though Not a Mech, but I can imagine it is a real pain to change ANYTHING out in the cold when it is Chicago Cold.

................they were primarily doing daytime larvacide work.........

mmmmmmmmmmmmm larvacide