At most lakes, the PWC (Personal Water Craft) is one of those annoying noisy things you put up with, unless you’re an owner or happen to be operating one, in which case they are great and a lot of fun. You didn’t think I meant this PWC did you?
Well this weekend I discovered something even more annoying that the buzzing of a PWC, and it’s the roar of a G-164A! Specifically, this one!
At 7am on Sunday morning this guy was making friends with a few hundred cottagers by flying up and down Big Stone Bay for about one hour, just above the tree tops. He passed directly over our cottage 3 or 4 times and in the general area another 3-4 time. While the plane seems to be equipped for spraying, I didn’t see any evidence of spraying in action and the flight pattern seemed to be covering the same area again and again. Hopefully he was working, otherwise it was just plane annoying.
UPDATE: It turns out the guy was working! I emailed the Kenora Airport and got this reply.
doing Jack Pine Budworm spraying in the Kenora area, they start
flying around 5:00am and they also fly in the evenings. Here is a contact
number for the MNR Mike Dawe @ 807-219-0422
Grumman designed the G-164 in the 1950s and it first flew on January 20, 1959. Grumman sold this and other programs to American Jet Industries in 1978. The new company was named Gulfstream American Corporation, but in early 1981 the program was sold to Schweizer who was a sub-contractor for many years. The G-164A numbered 1325 aircraft (c/n 401 to 1725), N48489 was manufactured in 1976.