Newps wrote:


Roy Smith wrote:

In article ,
Newps wrote:


And the approved area will never be at the airport, always away from
it unless it is for some kind of airshow type demonstration.



Around here, we have several airports where the jump area is right
over the airport. The jumpers land in the grass next to the runway.


I understand that, that happens all over the place. But have the FAA
come over to your jump club for a Wings type safety presentation and
have the nice FSDO person give you all the FAA reccomendations for jump
operations. They will always reccomend that the landing zone be a few
miles away from the airport, well outside the normal traffic patterns.

I'm not a skydiver but know quite a few and have been to quite a few
drop zones. Everyone I've been to has been on the airport property. To
me it doesn't make sense to have the jumpers land several miles away and
then retrieve them and bring them back to the airplane. But it doesn't
make sense to me to jump out a perfectly good airplane either! So long
as everyone does what they're supposed to it can and does work.

And in fact every instance that I'm aware of, an off airport jump for a
demo is the one that requires FAA approval and I've always seen someone
from the FAA there.

Just my $.02 worth,
Chris