Great airmanship, technically bad procedures, and…

[3WE]

…maybe a shred of cowboy-monkey improvisation:

https://youtu.be/7sf_xWiTeE4

[TeeVee]

say what you will, that was just plain stupid, as in, lose your license stupid.

[3WE]

Indeed.

Rules were violated…pretty extremely, too.

I am betting that investigators are making an enforcement attempt.

The N number isn’t legible, that I can tell.

Putting on my lawyer hat, I ass-ume you have to have a fairly solid identification of the pilot.

Ironingly, there should also be a pretty decent pesticide application paper trail (purchase, farmer, as well as the actual application, I suppose you could fudge it, BUT, the trucker has the plane in a field at a date/time (assumed)).

Conversely, if the spray outfit had multiple pilots, I suppose there could be a collective stupidity conspiracy, “wadnt me and I didn’t see nothin.”

[Evan]

Putting on my lawyer hat, I ass-ume you have to have a fairly solid identification of the pilot.

Yes, I think you're in the clear. It looks to me like N-3WE but I'm not at all solid on that.

[3WE]

Yes, I think you're in the clear. It looks to me like N-3WE but I'm not at all solid on that.

Wasn’t me and I didn’t see anything.

[Not_Karl]

Yes, I think you're in the clear. It looks to me like N-3WE but I'm not at all solid on that.

Ban ALL 3WE.