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RicardoJune 8, 2015, 10:42pm
texasbuzzardJune 8, 2015, 11:37pm
Very nice video Ricardo. What kind of crops are growing in those fields?
Monte
WyoguyJune 9, 2015, 4:28am
Ricardo, great video. Beautiful country side. Spring time is my favorite! So, I don't know anything about your tax system, but if anything like ours.....you were out checking your crops and because of this are able to write off the expense of your Max LOL!! I Cromecast your video onto the TV. My wife thought it was so clear that it was fake. I finally convinced her when you got out and parked the plane!
pkoszegiJune 9, 2015, 4:55am
Quoted from Wyoguy
Ricardo, great video. Beautiful country side. Spring time is my favorite! So, I don't know anything about your tax system, but if anything like ours.....you were out checking your crops and because of this are able to write off the expense of your Max LOL!! I Cromecast your video onto the TV. My wife thought it was so clear that it was fake. I finally convinced her when you got out and parked the plane!
OMG, Our Tax Authority should not hear this, you are heretic and they are more like the spanish inquisition in Hungary. You could be burned alive for such ideas I dont know about South America....
RicardoJune 9, 2015, 1:19pm
Thank you guys.
Monte this area is planted with tangerines and avocados orchards but there's also Yuca, corn, sweet potato, strawberries,etc etc. with this kind of climate just about anything can grow.
Agriculture taxes are 50% less than any other activity (just 15% of net income)but I never thought of passing the Minimax ..unless I hang a spray system on the wings ..maybe not a bad idea....otherwise I can get a visit from the IRS equivalent and get a fine that will ground me and the plane.
Peter, now I can understand why you want to fly to other countries
beragoobruceJune 9, 2015, 9:41pm
Inspiring, Ricardo. Great landings, too!
Bruce
fiebichpvJune 10, 2015, 3:39am
Nice video, nice flight Ricardo! Thanks for posting, we always like to watch you fly over territory that most of us will never get to see in person.
paul
PUFFJune 10, 2015, 12:45pm
You could do a 1 gallon garden sprayer and a spray attachment under the fuse!
aeronutJune 10, 2015, 1:29pm
Great video Ricardo! Thanks for posting.
never surrender; never give-up
Sterling SilverJune 12, 2015, 2:26pm
In the 80's, during the UL heyday, someone made an "ultralight" for ag spraying. I think it was a company in Louisiana that made the BOBCAT. Anyway, it was sort of an ultralight Cub.
A recent (at that time) graduate of Texas A&M had taken over his grandfather's rice farm and the Aggie bought one of the Bobcats. As I flew over the fields on a couple of different days, I saw the Aggie flying but I don't know that he ever actually sprayed anything. I figure he did not, since he never crashed the machine. I mean, he would have had to pull up and turn over oak trees that were 85 to 100 ft. tall.
Anyway, I was just thinking that Ricardo needs some video of those UL's spraying to help him make his case for the tax deduction. Then again, there might be less painful ways to end one's life.
Ricardo, thanks for he vid.
Bert
RicardoJune 12, 2015, 3:02pm
I remember, it was the Aeromaster, owner was a guy from Louisiana I met at S&F years ago, he didn't have the plane on display that time. It had a 582 engine. Nice little Pawne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf8t0TE_dsASterling SilverJune 12, 2015, 4:12pm
Aeromaster is much more business-like than the high wing machine the Aggie had. He must not have had a Bobcat, or ther Bobcat he had went out of business and then this one came along.
You are familiar with the idea. I'm not suggesting it, just joking. I thought the Piper Pawnee was light for rice country. Anything to beat the tax man, though.
Bert