Aerial Topdressing Scheme Flies Away With Top Award
Aerial Topdressing Scheme Flies Away With Top Award A safety programme developed by the Agricultural Aviation Industry to protect the environment has won a major award. The New Zealand Agricultural Aviation Association (NZAAA) Aircare programme received the Richard Pearse Trophy for Innovative Excellence in the New Zealand Aviation Industry, named in honour of the New Zealand pioneer Aviator and inventor, at last month's Aviation New Zealand conference. Aircare was an integrated environmental safety and Flight safety programme that stopped contamination of waterways by fertilisers and sprays, NZAAA chairman Alan Beck, of Eltham, said. More than half the industry is accredited to Aircare, which NZAAA developed three years ago. It provides a code of practice for noise abatement, Firefighting and the Aerial application of agrichemicals, fertiliser and vertebrate toxic agents like 1080. Landcorp uses only Aircare accredited operators. Beck said the industry's adoptio...