Georgia Aerial Applicator Category 34 Exam Updated 2026 | Study Guide & Practice Test Questions

Prepare for success with the Georgia Aerial Category 34 Exam Updated 2026 study guide. This PDF is meticulously designed to mirror the actual exam, providing you with the exact questions and answers you need to know to become a certified aerial applicator in Georgia. Forget wasting time on outdated material. This guide contains over 570 practice questions, directly reflecting the latest 2026 updates to the Category 34 testing standards. Whether you are a new pilot entering the field or a seasoned professional needing to recertify, this resource covers every critical topic to ensure you understand the principles of safe and effective aerial pesticide application. Georgia Aerial Category 34 Exam Updated 2026/2027 Methods & Application Reviews All 550 Questions with Correct Certified Answers with Rationales Guaranteed Pass Already Graded A+ 1. Spray drift may be defined as? - ANSWER️️-Particles that move out of the target area and deposit on adjoining properties, a complex movement of pesticide chemicals out of the target area and the movement of spray particles or droplets, granules or dust particles away from the target site before the deposit. 2. Information that should be collected prior to an application would include: - ANSWER️️-Crops to be treated, pest(s) to be controlled and the application rate 3. After the pesticide has been selected, the mixer/loader should check the _____ to understand all of the requirements and warnings. - ANSWER️️-Label 4. Pesticide labels change periodically? - ANSWER️️-True 5. After selecting the product, the mixer/loader must understand all of the requirements and warnings on the label, they should mark the label information that is important for the job, and he should file the marked label for future reference. Which of the following is not true? - ANSWER️️-Once a label is marked and filed it can be followed indefinitely as long as you are using the same activation ingredient with the same formulation. 6. When comparing a new label to a previously marked and filed label the two should contain the same data, to which of the following should you pay close attention? - ANSWER️️-Registration numbers and other identification data, application rate and drop size spectrum, and wind limitations, susceptible crops, and state and federal regulations. 7. The pilot must be briefed or should analyze all risks and hazards of the product being applied and these may include _____? - ANSWER️️-Areas susceptible to damage downwind such as crops, orchards, and garden. Neighbors and businesses. Physical obstructions, bees, water, and wildlife habitat. 8. Two excellent ways to manage spray drift are ____? - ANSWER️️-To control the spray droplet size and to spray when the air is calm. 9. A droplet having the diameter of 50-100 micrometers is similar to: - ANSWER️️-Mist 10. A droplet having a diameter of 500 micrometers is similar to: - ANSWER️️-Light rain, medium agricultural sprays 11. Pesticide particles X and Y have diameters of 150 micrometers and 300 micrometers respectively. The volume of particle Y is: - ANSWER️️-Eight times greater than particle X 12. The spray particles emitted by a nozzle are: - ANSWER️️-Of various sizes - a spectrum of droplet sizes 13. If 300 micrometers is the volume medium diameter of a spray, then any volume of said spray will consist of the following distribution of particle size. - ANSWER️️-½ greater than 300 micrometers, ½ less than 300 micrometers 14. Major factors in controlling drift that an aerial applicator must consider are? - ANSWER️️-Weather, equipment, and product characteristics 15. What is a water soluble polymer, also called a DCA (Drift Control Agent) - ANSWER️️-Hydroxy-ethyl cellulose 16. What specific characteristics of pesticide formulations and carriers are known to affect the droplet size spectrum? - ANSWER️️-Viscosity, Surface tension, Vapor pressure, and density 17. When emitted from a spray nozzle operating at a pressure that will produce spray, high viscosity spray mixes - as compared to lower viscosity spray mixes - are expected to produce sprays with? - ANSWER️️-An increased volume of droplets in the larger size range & a decreased volume of droplets in the smaller size range. 18. In comparing the flow rate (gallon/min) of several liquids of differing viscosities, one would find the liquid with highest viscosity to have: - ANSWER️️-The lowest flow rate 19. When comparing several liquids with differing viscosities at a constant flow rate (gallon/min) through the same nozzle would fine the liquid with high viscosity to have? - ANSWER️️-The highest droplet VMD 20. When all temperatures are held constant, the viscosity of diesel fuel and vegetable oils are? - ANSWER️️-Greater than that of water 21. Two spray mixes are prepared having viscosities of "A" and "B" where "B" is greater than "A", and applied with the same equipment under similar condition. The spray mix with viscosity "B" is expected to produce a spectrum of particle sizes. - ANSWER️️-Contains a higher percentage of large particles that spray mix "A" 22. When adding hydroxyethyl cellulose (an adjuvant) to a spray mix, you may produce a wider spectrum of droplet sizes with more large drops and fewer small drops. - ANSWER️️-True 23. When adding polyvinyl polymer (an adjuvant) to a spray mix, you may produce a wider spectrum of droplet sizes with more large drops than fewer drops. - ANSWER️️-True 24. The primary reason or reasons for adding adjuvants commonly referred to as a "drift control agents" to mixtures of pesticides and diluents are: - ANSWER️️-Reduce the quantity of "off target" and increase the quantity of "on target" pesticide deposition 25. Which of the following might be caused by adding adjuvant to the pesticide/carrier mixture? - ANSWER️️-The surface tension on water drops may be reduced, there may be a change in the resistance to flow of the spray mixture, and calibration should be rechecked. 26. Some adjuvants added to a spray mixture may actually produce more small drops since a small amount of the adjuvants can reduce surface tension and therefore reduce droplet size. - ANSWER️️-True 27. The addition of a small amount of the surfactant or a wetting agent to a spray mix may result in the following change in surface tension of the spray mix. - ANSWER️️-Surface tension will decrease 28. At a constant temperature, diesel fuel and vegetable oil have surface tensions that are. - ANSWER️️-Greater than that of water 29. The surface tension of liquids ____? - ANSWER️️-Decreases with increases in temperatures 30. Surface tension for water is _____ xylene, diesel fuel and cottonseed oil. - ANSWER️️-Greater than 31. _____ is a measure of the capacity of a substance to evaporate - ANSWER️️-Vapor Pressure 32. What change in the pressure of liquids might be expected when the temperature changes? - ANSWER️️-A: Vapor pressure increases as the temperature increases 33. 2,4-D herbicide formulations are commonly referred to as "high volatile", "low volatile" and "nonvolatile". Non-volatile formulations may vaporize on very hot days. - ANSWER️️-True 34. The density of water is _____ than that of diesel fuel and cottonseed oil. - ANSWER️️-Less 35. Droplets having the same size but of a less dense liquid will fall _____ than a more dense liquid. - ANSWER️️-Slower 36. Application equipment related factors having major effect on droplet size are: - ANSWER️️-Nozzle and nozzle orientation, spray pressure an air speed, and boom selection and position. 37. When selecting boom types to get the most effective swath patterns, round booms are always better than airfoil type booms. - ANSWER️️-False 38. Small water droplets fall faster than large droplets - ANSWER️️-False 39. Small water droplets fall slower than larger droplets, so are more susceptible to off-target drift - ANSWER️️-True 40. How is spray particle size related to the terminal velocity of the falling spray particles? - ANSWER️️-Terminal velocity increases as spray particle size increases 41. There is more lateral movement of smaller spray droplets in 1 mile per hour wind than of larger droplets. - ANSWER️️-True 42. As a water bearing spray particle falls through a relatively dry atmosphere its size will - ANSWER️️-Get smaller 43. Smaller slower droplets are _________? - ANSWER️️-Are more susceptible to evaporation than larger droplets 44. A very useful tool that an aerial applicator has for measuring droplet deposition on the target is? - ANSWER️️-Pattern testing 45. A fixed wing aircraft with a symmetrical nozzle arrangement disperses liquid spray from a height of 10' or less as it flies directly into the wind. More spray will be deposited to the left of the centerline of flight due to the slipstream turbulence caused by the? - ANSWER️️-Clockwise rotation of the propeller 46. Slipstream turbulence carries some spray droplets from the right semispan nozzles to the target area beneath and to the left of the fuselage - ANSWER️️-True