On Feb 18, 7:23 am, Jay Maynard
wrote:
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On 2008-02-18, wrote:

Well, they only love you for the altitude after all. I remember my
first *landing* in a Cessna 210 after 100's of jumps. We cleared the
pines at the end of the runway going at some gawdawful speed such that
I knew we were gonna die in a flaming twisted pile of gas soaked
wreckage....musta been just above stall speed but compared to the
20~25mph full glide approach then 0 mph flare and touch down I was
used to under canopy this suicidal madness.

Once upon a time, I was talking to a skydiver I knew, and gave him the line
about being nuts for jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. He replied
that I was nuts for landing in one.

So, why did you ride that one back to the ground?
--
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Business flight, sorta. The owner of the DZ and 210 was performing
demo jumps for Remax (9 cell Avenger canopy, we called them
'Revengers' for the landing characteristics) and we were coming into
Redbird in Dallas.

Funny anecdote, a few weeks later we had a demo in San Angelo and were
departing Waller CC. I noticed that we passed south of the Austin
airport heading west and kept waiting for the turn to a more NW
heading. After about 10 minutes I asked Ed (I was in the rear seats,
his GF was in the co-pilot position) to show me San Angelo on his
sectional. Annoyed he pointed to it on the map....which was (I
assume, not being a sectional reading kinda jumper) the San Angelo
VOR, not the town. I pointed out that we would be somewhere north of
Big Bend, and we could land in Lajitas but that would make us late for
our jump in San Angelo which is UP HERE TO THE NORTH YOU IDJIT!

As reward I got to fly home the next day.