Skydivers vs. Gliders?
The mix works well at Elsinore, and Dillingham, but I think there
might be problems at Minden. At Dillingham there's a unicom, and the
jump operations are at opposite ends of a 9000' runway. When the winds
shift the gliders and the jumpers swap ends of the field. At Elsinore
when I was last there, the two operations again were opposite each
other. Unfortunately the jumps don't always go as planned, and off
field landings do occur. Also Dillingham doesn't see any corporate jet
activity. It could work, but I fear at the expense of some airspace
presently used for glider training and local flying.
Rich
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