HL Falbaum wrote:
We shared the airport in Monroe, Georgia with skydivers for many years. We
were there before them, and they are now gone--evicted for rent arrears, and
too many dead bodies....

I have never jumped out of an airplane but believe that sky diving can
be a safe sport. When my club co-existed with a large sky diving school,
it got to the point that I no longer looked up when an ambulance rolled
onto the field. If only the jumpers would make nice, stabilized,
approaches to a landing - but that doesn't impress the ladies (and, yes,
the "scenery" is MUCH better than at any soaring site). So, what you see
is a lot of radical maneuvering close to the ground ("hook turns"?)- and
some times they would miss-judge. One time, an ambulance was on the
field and the next jumper tried to impress the ambulance crew. He got to
ride in the ambulance too.

Tony V. LS6-b