"Al G" wrote in message
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Bertie


Just think how you would have felt if saw this at FL350.

Bob F.
I had a skydiver exit the right side of a no-door 182 at about 6500,
snag the gear, and climb up the left side outside my window. He knocked,
and I about croaked.

Al G



I didn't think about this until just the other day when we we're
talking about it, but in the couple of minutes it took this nut to get
across the airplane and hang outside my window, I probably hauled him 3 or 4
miles from the drop zone. It was my practice to add speed right after
everybody left, and start the cooling process before I got started down in
earnest. I also generally left the drop area, as other aircraft could be
planning a drop, and the area was in the approach quadrant for our local
airport. If you had 5000' agl, and a square rig, how far could you go?(wind
calm).

This nut later got his instrument rating, became a very good pilot,
and went to work for FedEx, in Caravans. He has since married another FedEx
pilot. His best friend, Nut2, once went by the Aztec I was flying, in
freefall, close enough to recognize his tennis shoes. Nut2 also got a
Commercial, Instrument, CFI, CFII, and went to work in the business. To
prove that natural selection doesn't always work, they are both still alive
today.

They were the best of times, they were the worst of times.


Al G