I think

[beaky]

Dusters go as fast as they dare, because they often do several fields in one day, and time is money.
As civilian flying goes, it definitely takes good skills... and more importantly, good judgement. Reading the field before you begin, thinking ahead, is what keeps them alive... sometimes they dust at night (no, really) to take advantage of lighter winds... they often need to remember what the field looks like during the day to do this safely.

But the military has them beat... they might not go quite as low, but often hug very uneven terrain at very high speeds, using artificial vision in darkness and/or bad weather... much harder.

everyone around here cropdusts at night, but alot of them use helicopters

Well, that's really dangerous... everybody knows those things don't actually fly.

[PsychoDiablo]

Dusters go as fast as they dare, because they often do several fields in one day, and time is money.
As civilian flying goes, it definitely takes good skills... and more importantly, good judgement. Reading the field before you begin, thinking ahead, is what keeps them alive... sometimes they dust at night (no, really) to take advantage of lighter winds... they often need to remember what the field looks like during the day to do this safely.

But the military has them beat... they might not go quite as low, but often hug very uneven terrain at very high speeds, using artificial vision in darkness and/or bad weather... much harder.

everyone around here cropdusts at night, but alot of them use helicopters

Well, that's really dangerous... everybody knows those things don't actually fly.

and the fact that we have low power lines underneath the small ones making it impossible to fly under them

[C]

I haven't seen any cropdusters for a long time. It's quite possible aerial spraying is banned in the UK now.

Sort of. You'll only see helicopters doing it now, or DC-3s over the sea...

[RitterKreuz]

Dusters go as fast as they dare, because they often do several fields in one day, and time is money.
As civilian flying goes, it definitely takes good skills... and more importantly, good judgement. Reading the field before you begin, thinking ahead, is what keeps them alive... sometimes they dust at night (no, really) to take advantage of lighter winds... they often need to remember what the field looks like during the day to do this safely.

But the military has them beat... they might not go quite as low, but often hug very uneven terrain at very high speeds, using artificial vision in darkness and/or bad weather... much harder.

BINGO! we have a wiener!!