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Old 09-06-2014, 11:01 AM
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I used to fly from a crop dusters field and it is surrounded by orchards and farms. When the farms had corn growing and the plane crashed in a field the duster pilot would fly his chopper over the corn and located the plane for us and hover until we got it. When the farmers planted some tall grass fodder, about 4 feet high you could ditch a plane without any damage. One year the harvester driver came in with a lost plane that went through the thrasher. The plane was out there for a week. The plane was total trash but the engine, RX and three servos made it in one piece. The runway was so narrow I don't see how a full scale plane could take off and land there. We used an area for take off and landing they used for filling the choppers and planes with the spray, it was nice and wide.