Student Pilot & skydivers

Hate to say it... but there would be a serious ass whoppin once back on
terra firma....



Buddy of mine used to fly skydiving ops in the early 1970s.

One time, after a long, hot climb to altitude in a 182, as the
skydivers exited, one of them grabbed the ignition key, turned
it to the "OFF" position and promptly exited the aircraft with the
key in his hand (my fiend, choices somewhat limited, glided back
to the airport below and dead-sticked her in).

After that, he always carried a spare key in his pocket for the
skydiving airplane he happened to be flying....

Bela P. Havasreti

On 3 Feb 2006 13:51:52 -0800, wrote:

Question; Student pilot drops 3 sky divers from a C-172 and FAA says
they are going to violate him but his CFI comes to rescue and saves the
day......
HOW?
BTW - this is a real story and event that took place nearly 40 years
ago in Louisiana.

A lot of things went on with sky divers back then.

I had my commercial license, so I wasn't exactly a student pilot.

But I flew out of short runways with a "fully loaded" airplane.

Mike Weller