[protomyth]

Although ND has crop dusters which will be an interesting conflict.

[rfrank]

How often do crop dusters usually fly? I feel like that's a problem that could be solved by a bit of communication.

[goodcanadian]

Over a given field, once or twice per year at most. Most farms probably do not use aircraft for spraying at all. They use ground equipment: tractors pulling sprayers. Granted that my experience is a different part of the world, but crop dusters are really rather rare.

[bkjelden]

I lived in the Dakotas for 20 years and crop dusters were present, but not terribly common. Ground spraying equipment was way more common.

As an aside, the City of Fargo uses crop dusters to spray for mosquitoes in the summer - which is either super cool or super annoying, depending on your opinion of airplanes :)

[protomyth]

Not in ND, they are fairly common. [edit: I'm in the NE to N central]

[protomyth]

It's seasonal, but they fly at altitudes a lot of drones fly at.

[at-fates-hands]

As someone who used to travel the back rural roads of North Dakota, I can confirm this. I've been buzzed a time or two from crazy crop dusting pilots.

It scares the bejesus out of you if you're not ready for it.

[rfrank]

Yeah, they'd definitely be at the same altitudes. I moreso meant do crop dusters fly daily, weekly, etc. Probably pretty crop dependent.

[protomyth]

As the jobs are contracted, so daily in season, chaotically.

[bradgessler]

Replace the crop dusters with drones?

[protomyth]

.... and watch your drones get shot down. I don't think anyone trusts a drone to do proper crop dusting or replace humans in that way.