ILLINOIS AERIAL APPLICATION STUDY GUIDE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FIRM A+
✔✔Requests that operations also report security breaches, threats, or suspicious
behavior to the local FBI field office. - ✔✔U.S. Department of Homeland Security
✔✔States have these regulations that require employers to train employees on how to
safely operate equipment and avoid hazards associated with their work. -
✔✔Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
✔✔List four important components of the operation that protect people, areas
surrounding treatment sites, and the environment. - ✔✔providing training
assuring good employee habits
checking areas before an application
resisting pressure to make unsafe or illegal applications
✔✔Mandates specific training requirements for employees who handle pesticides in
agricultural operations. - ✔✔the EPA Worker Protection Standard (WPS)
✔✔According to the WPS regulation, a pesticide handler in an aerial application
operation is any employee who: - ✔✔- mixes, loads, transfers, or applies pesticides
- maintains, services, repairs, cleans, or handles equipment that may contain residues
or that has been used in pesticide mixing or application activities
- works with opened containers, including emptied but not rinsed containers
- flags during aerial applications
✔✔Federal WPS regulations require pesticide handlers receive training every ___ years
at minimum. - ✔✔5 years
(pesticide applicators are exempt from this training requirement)
✔✔True/False: You should make your physician aware of your occupation handling
pesticides so that is considered when prescribing medications. - ✔✔True
✔✔Severe heat illness can cause a person to what? - ✔✔act confused, get angry
easily, behave strangely
✔✔True/False: WPS regulations require that pesticide handlers receive training on
recognizing, avoiding, and treating heat stress. - ✔✔True
✔✔Each pesticide application you make is possibly _____ for you because of
differences between application site locations, obstacles, non-target areas, weather,
pesticide materials, crops or target areas, and other variables. - ✔✔unique
,✔✔Some pesticide materials may have local application restrictions such as what four
things? - ✔✔time of use
height of application
prohibitions due to nearby sensitive crops
requirements for buffer zones
✔✔What is required for any aircraft you operate over congested areas? - ✔✔within the
preceding 100 hours of time in service, a 100-hour or annual inspection by an
authorized person, or been inspected under a progressive inspection system
✔✔What is considered a congested area? - ✔✔populated areas where chances of
personal injury or property damage are greater if the aircraft should crash or if you must
dump the pesticide load
✔✔Make a _____ inspection of the aircraft's application equipment, the same as you do
for the aircraft. - ✔✔daily
✔✔Use a boom length that does not exceed _____ of the wingspan of fixed-wing
aircraft or the rotor diameter of rotary-wing aircraft in order to reduce drift caused by
wing tip and rotor vortices. - ✔✔75%
✔✔Before committing to make an application, someone from the application should
________________ to identify obstacles, hazards, and sensitive areas. - ✔✔visit the
target site
✔✔True/False: You should keep on your pesticide PPE when entering the air-craft
cockpit. - ✔✔False - remove before entering
✔✔According to the Worker Protection Standard, who is responsible for the
notification/posting? - ✔✔agricultural employers
✔✔Clean equipment in an area where you can ____ _____. Otherwise, clean the
equipment at the application site. - ✔✔contain runoff
✔✔Regulations require the operator to provide record information to the grower or
property manager from whom you made the application within ___ days of the
application. - ✔✔30 days
✔✔Federal regulations require the operator to keep copies of these records for a
minimum of ____ years; state requirements may differ. - ✔✔2 years
✔✔Save all electronic files from an application, including flight data and the ________
map files from the GPS system. - ✔✔as-applied
, ✔✔Emergency planning must include providing ground crew members at the loading
zone and satellite strips with ______ ______ _____. - ✔✔emergency telephone
numbers
✔✔Locate the nearest ____ ______ to the application site and provide each
crewmember with instructions on how to get there. - ✔✔medical facility
✔✔Whenever possible, have a ____ ____ _____ present at the application site who is
able to communicate with you during the entire operation. - ✔✔ground crew member
✔✔What should be done if a crash occurs? - ✔✔switch off the aircraft's batteries and
shut off its fuel line
✔✔Regulations require that pesticide labels be at the use site, which includes what? -
✔✔the area you are spraying in addition to the mixing-loading site
✔✔What is the exemption to that requirement? - ✔✔for aerial applications, as long as
you maintain radio contact with the ground crew and any flaggers
✔✔Keep _______ ____ at the mixing-loading site for cleaning up spills, dealing with
pesticide fires, and situations requiring assistance from fire fighters or emergency
medical technicians. - ✔✔instruction sheets
✔✔Who assumes responsibility for any pesticide misapplication? - ✔✔the applicator
✔✔The condition where pesticides or pesticide residues leave the application site at
any time and in any manner other than during a pesticide application. - ✔✔off-target
movement of pesticides
✔✔Pesticides with ___ volatility are more likely to move off the application site than
pesticides with ___ volatility. - ✔✔high
low
✔✔Pesticides and pesticide residues can move off the application site in several ways
after they are applied. What are some examples of this? - ✔✔post-application
volatilization
leaching
rainfall or irrigation water
blowing off site
leaving the application site as residues on crops
being carried off by vehicles, equipment, animals, people
being carried off as fine droplets in an inversion cloud
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FIRM A+
✔✔Requests that operations also report security breaches, threats, or suspicious
behavior to the local FBI field office. - ✔✔U.S. Department of Homeland Security
✔✔States have these regulations that require employers to train employees on how to
safely operate equipment and avoid hazards associated with their work. -
✔✔Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
✔✔List four important components of the operation that protect people, areas
surrounding treatment sites, and the environment. - ✔✔providing training
assuring good employee habits
checking areas before an application
resisting pressure to make unsafe or illegal applications
✔✔Mandates specific training requirements for employees who handle pesticides in
agricultural operations. - ✔✔the EPA Worker Protection Standard (WPS)
✔✔According to the WPS regulation, a pesticide handler in an aerial application
operation is any employee who: - ✔✔- mixes, loads, transfers, or applies pesticides
- maintains, services, repairs, cleans, or handles equipment that may contain residues
or that has been used in pesticide mixing or application activities
- works with opened containers, including emptied but not rinsed containers
- flags during aerial applications
✔✔Federal WPS regulations require pesticide handlers receive training every ___ years
at minimum. - ✔✔5 years
(pesticide applicators are exempt from this training requirement)
✔✔True/False: You should make your physician aware of your occupation handling
pesticides so that is considered when prescribing medications. - ✔✔True
✔✔Severe heat illness can cause a person to what? - ✔✔act confused, get angry
easily, behave strangely
✔✔True/False: WPS regulations require that pesticide handlers receive training on
recognizing, avoiding, and treating heat stress. - ✔✔True
✔✔Each pesticide application you make is possibly _____ for you because of
differences between application site locations, obstacles, non-target areas, weather,
pesticide materials, crops or target areas, and other variables. - ✔✔unique
,✔✔Some pesticide materials may have local application restrictions such as what four
things? - ✔✔time of use
height of application
prohibitions due to nearby sensitive crops
requirements for buffer zones
✔✔What is required for any aircraft you operate over congested areas? - ✔✔within the
preceding 100 hours of time in service, a 100-hour or annual inspection by an
authorized person, or been inspected under a progressive inspection system
✔✔What is considered a congested area? - ✔✔populated areas where chances of
personal injury or property damage are greater if the aircraft should crash or if you must
dump the pesticide load
✔✔Make a _____ inspection of the aircraft's application equipment, the same as you do
for the aircraft. - ✔✔daily
✔✔Use a boom length that does not exceed _____ of the wingspan of fixed-wing
aircraft or the rotor diameter of rotary-wing aircraft in order to reduce drift caused by
wing tip and rotor vortices. - ✔✔75%
✔✔Before committing to make an application, someone from the application should
________________ to identify obstacles, hazards, and sensitive areas. - ✔✔visit the
target site
✔✔True/False: You should keep on your pesticide PPE when entering the air-craft
cockpit. - ✔✔False - remove before entering
✔✔According to the Worker Protection Standard, who is responsible for the
notification/posting? - ✔✔agricultural employers
✔✔Clean equipment in an area where you can ____ _____. Otherwise, clean the
equipment at the application site. - ✔✔contain runoff
✔✔Regulations require the operator to provide record information to the grower or
property manager from whom you made the application within ___ days of the
application. - ✔✔30 days
✔✔Federal regulations require the operator to keep copies of these records for a
minimum of ____ years; state requirements may differ. - ✔✔2 years
✔✔Save all electronic files from an application, including flight data and the ________
map files from the GPS system. - ✔✔as-applied
, ✔✔Emergency planning must include providing ground crew members at the loading
zone and satellite strips with ______ ______ _____. - ✔✔emergency telephone
numbers
✔✔Locate the nearest ____ ______ to the application site and provide each
crewmember with instructions on how to get there. - ✔✔medical facility
✔✔Whenever possible, have a ____ ____ _____ present at the application site who is
able to communicate with you during the entire operation. - ✔✔ground crew member
✔✔What should be done if a crash occurs? - ✔✔switch off the aircraft's batteries and
shut off its fuel line
✔✔Regulations require that pesticide labels be at the use site, which includes what? -
✔✔the area you are spraying in addition to the mixing-loading site
✔✔What is the exemption to that requirement? - ✔✔for aerial applications, as long as
you maintain radio contact with the ground crew and any flaggers
✔✔Keep _______ ____ at the mixing-loading site for cleaning up spills, dealing with
pesticide fires, and situations requiring assistance from fire fighters or emergency
medical technicians. - ✔✔instruction sheets
✔✔Who assumes responsibility for any pesticide misapplication? - ✔✔the applicator
✔✔The condition where pesticides or pesticide residues leave the application site at
any time and in any manner other than during a pesticide application. - ✔✔off-target
movement of pesticides
✔✔Pesticides with ___ volatility are more likely to move off the application site than
pesticides with ___ volatility. - ✔✔high
low
✔✔Pesticides and pesticide residues can move off the application site in several ways
after they are applied. What are some examples of this? - ✔✔post-application
volatilization
leaching
rainfall or irrigation water
blowing off site
leaving the application site as residues on crops
being carried off by vehicles, equipment, animals, people
being carried off as fine droplets in an inversion cloud
