The 3 most basic agricultural donks I’ve driven have been the 0235/320/360, I’d rather sit behind the old clunkers than any of today’s complex ‘feel good’ donks any day!
complexity, weight and cost are the driving factors. Anti/de-ice is mainly for the high end machines where bleed air and or EP work best.
in 42 years of driving planes I’ve only ever seen/had nasty ice enuf to make an operational change
The cruising levels are not mandatory, WX could see you unable to comply with the lunatics in charge rules! I use common sense and that’s not part of CASA’s makeup!
Mankind ( or more the lunatic greenies) have crated so much fear re hydrocarbon products the average follower will just go along with whatever future power source the grubby media tells them!
The grubby media make sure the word pilot is mentioned, it gets more attention, sells more newspapers, that’s their game, fear and hysteria are No1 when it comes to journo’s, just look at the last near two years of Covid BS we’ve had to put up with?
It’s a risk you take when buying such a sh1t heap in the first place and only making it look ‘pretty’! The guy who said he’d flown just about every diff type....but learnt nothing! Still he survived, wonder whether he learnt anything this time?
The whole philosophy of the AUF was to keep it simple hence affordable flying but like most thinks in life you plant a seed then it grows into a big tree!👍