Student Pilot & skydivers

Bela P. Havasreti wrote:
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:30:07 -0600, Mike Weller
wrote:

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....

You know, I've heard that story so many times, and I know it's supposed
to be funny, but all I can think is how irresponsible it is.

On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 09:09:08 -0600, Rachel wrote:

You know, I've heard that story so many times, and I know it's supposed
to be funny, but all I can think is how irresponsible it is.

Years ago, my skydiving instructor showed up seriously hungover to
make his first jump with the college skydiving club. When he
attempted to deploy his main canopy, his pilot chute was connected to
a bedsheet full of empty beer cans.

He told me this story after my second static jump, he was the last one
out of the airplane that day, streamered, and had to come down on the
reserve.

Didn't really seem like the beer can thing bugged him, I would have
been seriously peeved.

My first boss told me that two things free-fall out of the sky-bird
poop and assholes...

TC

"Rachel" wrote in message
. ..

You know, I've heard that story so many times, and I know it's supposed to
be funny, but all I can think is how irresponsible it is.

Its a form of check-out: If you cannot manage on on-field landing from ten
thousand
feet above it you probably shouldn't be hauling jumpers in beat up jump
planes all day,
and if you'll come back after a stunt like that you're probably cool to
party with.

Todd

"Todd W. Deckard" wrote

Its a form of check-out: If you cannot manage on on-field landing from ten
thousand
feet above it you probably shouldn't be hauling jumpers in beat up jump
planes all day,
and if you'll come back after a stunt like that you're probably cool to
party with.
\\
Yeah, I would party with the dude; right after I coldcocked him.
--
Jim in NC

Todd W. Deckard wrote:
"Rachel" wrote in message
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You know, I've heard that story so many times, and I know it's supposed to
be funny, but all I can think is how irresponsible it is.


Its a form of check-out: If you cannot manage on on-field landing from ten
thousand
feet above it you probably shouldn't be hauling jumpers in beat up jump
planes all day,
and if you'll come back after a stunt like that you're probably cool to
party with.

Todd


Still a violation of the FAR's.

Personally, I stay far away from skydivers.

Rachel wrote:
Todd W. Deckard wrote:
"Rachel" wrote in message
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You know, I've heard that story so many times, and I know it's supposed to
be funny, but all I can think is how irresponsible it is.


Its a form of check-out: If you cannot manage on on-field landing from ten
thousand
feet above it you probably shouldn't be hauling jumpers in beat up jump
planes all day,
and if you'll come back after a stunt like that you're probably cool to
party with.

Todd


Still a violation of the FAR's.

Personally, I stay far away from skydivers.

I did a rating for jump pilot and as a consequence had a couple of
jumps..
In my opinion no-one would be stupid enough to pull that trick but were
they that would be the end of their skydiving and the beginning of
their working career with a criminal conviction.
And.
I could (and did most times) get back onto the ground before the load !

george wrote:
Rachel wrote:

Todd W. Deckard wrote:

"Rachel" wrote in message
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You know, I've heard that story so many times, and I know it's supposed to
be funny, but all I can think is how irresponsible it is.


Its a form of check-out: If you cannot manage on on-field landing from ten
thousand
feet above it you probably shouldn't be hauling jumpers in beat up jump
planes all day,
and if you'll come back after a stunt like that you're probably cool to
party with.

Todd



Still a violation of the FAR's.

Personally, I stay far away from skydivers.


I did a rating for jump pilot and as a consequence had a couple of
jumps..
In my opinion no-one would be stupid enough to pull that trick but were
they that would be the end of their skydiving and the beginning of
their working career with a criminal conviction.

I don't know, would anyone actually get in criminal trouble for that?

I don't know, would anyone actually get in criminal trouble for that?

Absolutely! I could see the pilot doing time for justifiable homicide,
or at the very least aggrevated assault...

Personally, I stay far away from skydivers.

Dam low-life scum! It's just unnatural to leave the
ground in an aircraft hundreds, maybe thousands, more
times than returning in one. :-)

Blue ones!,
Tony P.

Mr. Todd
Right on.....Having hauled jumpers/jumping as far back as 1959 and as a
pilot with nearly 23,000 hours, I have to agree. Have flown some real
junk over the years, and have jumped with some real junk over the
years. Have you ever seen the pic of the 13 floaters on the B-18 south
of Perris? I was the pilot of that one in 1985.
I remember one time with a high altitude jump when an oxygen bottle was
being passed back and forth, and one of the jumpers puked into the mask
and jumped....the following jumper got the puke and chased the guy to
the ground. Lyle Cameron, Duke Adair, Bob Sinclair, me, and some others
that I'll recall with time..... Duke was laughing so hard he didn't
feel the guys whipping on his stupid ass......
What ever happened to the old days besides being part of history?