Originally Posted by
flynwmn
As an Airline Pilot and an Aerial Applicator if my father in law needs help. lumping cropdusters in with with the rest of us is a joke. The new airplanes are not just barnstormers. We use the latest in navigation that is tied to the farmers fields with Trimble Sat Locs allowing chemical to be applied where it is needed not just a blanket cover of a field. You need to have the skill to pilot a high performance aircraft low to the ground well manuevering. Applicating is not RNAV LNAV USA Today.
My point being, which you've helped point out, is that aviators work across a vast rang of types of flying. I fly with our crop duster all the time who has 25k hours and he flies IFR very rarely and can't tell you the specifications of different airspaces yet he can handle an aircraft extremely well. So is he a great pilot or a bad pilot? I have a few thousand hours now flying in and out of large airports and flying in various weather conditions but I don't have any experience flying 10ft off the ground under powerlines. Which one of us is the "bad" pilot? I don't know anyone that's proficient in everything and that's what this guy makes mil pilots sound like. Mil guys excel at mil things not everything.