MAVI DENIZ designed an Aircraft Spray System to control mosquitoes, locusts, and grasshoppers, and treat forest fires with water or fire extinguishing chemicals, or the overhead application of liquid fertilizers and pesticides, crops, ground vegetation, and also oil spill operations in confined or inaccessible situations.
The main Advantage is that Speed is an essential factor for operation, especially over forests and large crop areas; field access is critical to a successful treatment.
Oil Spill Operations offered by the aerial spraying of dispersants ( with reasonable control and assessment results) include the rapid response, high treatment rates, and optimum use of the product, regardless of the sea state. Many spraying systems have been developed for use with both fixed and rotating wing aircraft ( helicopter or plane ).
Existing units are either of a type that can be used by the aircraft of convenience or permanently installed. Standard built-in spraying systems on crop-spraying aircraft, widely used in agriculture, can be adapted to spray dispersants.
Aerial spraying is only one part of the solution for controlling mosquitoes, but it is the one method that can rapidly reduce the spreading growing in a large area. Used Chemicals Not toxic to people. It has not been shown to make people sick. When used as directed, it can apply safely to standing water where mosquitoes lay eggs without causing harm to food crops or water supplies.
Spraying operations against migrant pests, locusts, and grasshoppers have used a variety of traditional pesticides. When chemicals are used in aerial spraying correctly, spraying provides a rapid kill. Aerial spraying does not cause long-term harm to the environment, birds, other animals, or the local ecosystem, even if spraying happens more than once.
Only neat concentrate dispersants are suitable for use with airborne spraying systems.
Aircraft dispersant spray systems are designed and certified for specific aircraft types and models.
Helicopter Spray System
Fixed spraying systems for helicopters are mounted under the fuselage and consist of the same parts as those built into fixed-wing aircraft.
Helicopter spray buckets can use any helicopter with a cargo hook for underslung loads. Units are self-contained (tank, pump, power pack, spraying arms) and can be remotely controlled from the cockpit.
Plane Spray System
Fixed systems for converted multi-engine aircraft comprise a dispersant storage system, a pump with powerpack spray arms and nozzles, and a remote control system.
As an alternative, some independent systems (with the tank, pump, and spray booms) have been developed to clamp under the fuselage as a detachable pod (i.e., instead of the luggage chest); these systems allow to convert quickly regular planes into spraying aircraft.
POD spraying systems for small aircraft; a self-contained spraying system can be rigged under a small plane as a POD (luggage trunk). It is quick and easy to convert a conventional aircraft into a spraying plane, usually devoted to goods or passenger transportation. The capacity of these systems is around 1.5 t of dispersant.
Self-contained airborne spraying systems are designed for large transport airplanes, with rear cargo doors remaining open during flight. Containerized units comprise a tank, power pack, pump, and retractable spray arms and quickly load into the cargo hold.