AERIAL APPLICATION FINAL PAPER
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS FULL
REVIEW GUIDE
●● Do not make turns over the following at any time?
Answer: Residences, poultry houses, livestock, and ponds/reservoirs.
●● Minimum altitude you must maintain during ferrying flights?
Answer: 500ft AGL
●● When ferrying never fly directly over what kind of buildings?
Answer: Farm buildings
●● During ferrying flights it is good practice to do what on each new
run?
Answer: Deviate course 1/8-1/4 of a miles from your previous course
●● Aerial application equipment is calibrated according to what metric?
Answer: APM or Acres per minute
●● DGPS-mediated flow controllers do what?
Answer: Adjust flow dependent on aircraft speed
,●● Application height is the distance between what two things?
Answer: nozzle tip/spreader exit
plant canopy
●● Small droplet sprays require what sort of application heights?
Answer: Application heights of 8-10ft above canopy for droplet sizes in
the 150-200 micron range
●● What sort of water could you use for spray pattern testing?
Answer: Dyed water
●● When spray pattern testing with oil based test liquid, what sort of
cards should be used?
Answer: Oil sensitive cards
●● Effective swath is:
Answer: The span of the spray pattern that contains enough pesticide to
obtain the desired result/pest control
●● Overall swath is:
Answer: The outermost range that spray droplets within your pattern
will reach but are not enough to result in satisfactory pest control
,●● In what type of outdoor conditions is it best to perform spray pattern
testing?
Answer: Low wind conditions generally in the morning, if winds are
measurable, fly the aircraft INTO the wind to conduct spray pattern
testing.
●● What is the first thing you should do prior to conducting a spray
operation?
Answer: Scout the target site from the air to identify obstacles, terrain,
and field layout
●● What should you specifically look for when scouting a field aerially
prior to an application?
Answer: Breaks in cultivation or plant cover, trees, buildings, telephone
poles, guy wires etc.
●● Guy wires generally pull in which direction in relation to circuitry
wire?
Answer: The OPPOSITE side
●● What must you determine about nearby buildings assumed to have
electricity?
Answer: The route by which they get their electricity
, ●● If there is an obstruction beside a field, how should it be handled?
Answer: Fly close and parallel to the obstruction
●● If there is an obstruction at the end of a field, how should it be
handled?
Answer: One or two swath widths prior to reaching the obstruction, cut
off spray and pull up. After those passes are complete, fly one or two
parallel clean up passes to catch the swaths you cut off early for.
●● What are the different types of ground crew members?
Answer: -On site field crew
-Mix/load crew
-Application equipment servicing crew
●● What jobs do the On Site Field Crew perform?
Answer: -Current weather conditions
-Topographical feature awareness
-Location and dimension of ground based hazards
-Buffer zone delineations
-Other factors affecting the job
●● The process of "Reregistration" refers to what practice by the EPA?
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS FULL
REVIEW GUIDE
●● Do not make turns over the following at any time?
Answer: Residences, poultry houses, livestock, and ponds/reservoirs.
●● Minimum altitude you must maintain during ferrying flights?
Answer: 500ft AGL
●● When ferrying never fly directly over what kind of buildings?
Answer: Farm buildings
●● During ferrying flights it is good practice to do what on each new
run?
Answer: Deviate course 1/8-1/4 of a miles from your previous course
●● Aerial application equipment is calibrated according to what metric?
Answer: APM or Acres per minute
●● DGPS-mediated flow controllers do what?
Answer: Adjust flow dependent on aircraft speed
,●● Application height is the distance between what two things?
Answer: nozzle tip/spreader exit
plant canopy
●● Small droplet sprays require what sort of application heights?
Answer: Application heights of 8-10ft above canopy for droplet sizes in
the 150-200 micron range
●● What sort of water could you use for spray pattern testing?
Answer: Dyed water
●● When spray pattern testing with oil based test liquid, what sort of
cards should be used?
Answer: Oil sensitive cards
●● Effective swath is:
Answer: The span of the spray pattern that contains enough pesticide to
obtain the desired result/pest control
●● Overall swath is:
Answer: The outermost range that spray droplets within your pattern
will reach but are not enough to result in satisfactory pest control
,●● In what type of outdoor conditions is it best to perform spray pattern
testing?
Answer: Low wind conditions generally in the morning, if winds are
measurable, fly the aircraft INTO the wind to conduct spray pattern
testing.
●● What is the first thing you should do prior to conducting a spray
operation?
Answer: Scout the target site from the air to identify obstacles, terrain,
and field layout
●● What should you specifically look for when scouting a field aerially
prior to an application?
Answer: Breaks in cultivation or plant cover, trees, buildings, telephone
poles, guy wires etc.
●● Guy wires generally pull in which direction in relation to circuitry
wire?
Answer: The OPPOSITE side
●● What must you determine about nearby buildings assumed to have
electricity?
Answer: The route by which they get their electricity
, ●● If there is an obstruction beside a field, how should it be handled?
Answer: Fly close and parallel to the obstruction
●● If there is an obstruction at the end of a field, how should it be
handled?
Answer: One or two swath widths prior to reaching the obstruction, cut
off spray and pull up. After those passes are complete, fly one or two
parallel clean up passes to catch the swaths you cut off early for.
●● What are the different types of ground crew members?
Answer: -On site field crew
-Mix/load crew
-Application equipment servicing crew
●● What jobs do the On Site Field Crew perform?
Answer: -Current weather conditions
-Topographical feature awareness
-Location and dimension of ground based hazards
-Buffer zone delineations
-Other factors affecting the job
●● The process of "Reregistration" refers to what practice by the EPA?
