Flying 10 Feet Off the Ground: Inside the World of Ag Pilot
Meet Austin Fontenot—a small-town Louisiana kid who went from racing dirt bikes down gravel roads to flying turbine-powered crop dusters across America. In this episode of Flight Tales, Austin shares the unfiltered truth about becoming an ag pilot: the training, the tight tree runs, the bird strikes, the fertilizer loads, and the weird-shaped fields that make every job different.
He talks about:
Why vet school wasn’t in the cards
Learning to fly in high school
Tailwheel and swath training in Bastrop
Working fields from Louisiana to Minnesota
Flying just 10-15 feet off the crops
Hitting birds…
The skinny
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