Almost mid-air video

Roy Smith wrote:

In article ,
Newps wrote:


And the approved area will never be at the airport, always away from it
unless it is for some kind of airshow type demonstration.


Around here, we have several airports where the jump area is right over the
airport. The jumpers land in the grass next to the runway.

I understand that, that happens all over the place. But have the FAA
come over to your jump club for a Wings type safety presentation and
have the nice FSDO person give you all the FAA reccomendations for jump
operations. They will always reccomend that the landing zone be a few
miles away from the airport, well outside the normal traffic patterns.

Newps wrote:


Roy Smith wrote:

In article ,
Newps wrote:


And the approved area will never be at the airport, always away from
it unless it is for some kind of airshow type demonstration.



Around here, we have several airports where the jump area is right
over the airport. The jumpers land in the grass next to the runway.


I understand that, that happens all over the place. But have the FAA
come over to your jump club for a Wings type safety presentation and
have the nice FSDO person give you all the FAA reccomendations for jump
operations. They will always reccomend that the landing zone be a few
miles away from the airport, well outside the normal traffic patterns.

I'm not a skydiver but know quite a few and have been to quite a few
drop zones. Everyone I've been to has been on the airport property. To
me it doesn't make sense to have the jumpers land several miles away and
then retrieve them and bring them back to the airplane. But it doesn't
make sense to me to jump out a perfectly good airplane either! So long
as everyone does what they're supposed to it can and does work.

And in fact every instance that I'm aware of, an off airport jump for a
demo is the one that requires FAA approval and I've always seen someone
from the FAA there.

Just my $.02 worth,
Chris

Chris Ehlbeck wrote:



I'm not a skydiver but know quite a few and have been to quite a few
drop zones. Everyone I've been to has been on the airport property.

The FAA will never tell you you can't jump into a certain place, other
than places like stadiums full of people. That's not thier job. The
fact that there's a jump zone depicted on a chart doesn't mean that it
necessarily was blessed by the FAA.


To
me it doesn't make sense to have the jumpers land several miles away and
then retrieve them and bring them back to the airplane. But it doesn't
make sense to me to jump out a perfectly good airplane either! So long
as everyone does what they're supposed to it can and does work.

It makes no sense from a safety standpoint to jump into an airport.
It's done because it is convenient.



And in fact every instance that I'm aware of, an off airport jump for a
demo is the one that requires FAA approval and I've always seen someone
from the FAA there.

That will be a waiver for jumping in to places like stadiums.

On 2006-05-07, Chris Ehlbeck wrote:
But it doesn't
make sense to me to jump out a perfectly good airplane either!

If you've ever seen a skydiver jump ship, you'll realise that they are
NOT jumping out of perfectly good airplanes!

The adage is make the jump ship scary enough that the skydivers don't
want to ride it back down to a landing, but not quite scary enough that
the pilot doesn't want to ride it back to a landing...

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I hear jumpers away calls all the time in my area. They are always over an
airport. I have never heard a call that was not over an airport. On top of
that, the jumpers away calls are very fast and mumbled. I think they have
some kind of policy to say it three times, so they rush through it as fast
as they can. I can never make out which airport it is at. I personally would
take a bit more time knowing someone's life may depend on it.


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Roy Smith wrote:

In article ,
Newps wrote:


And the approved area will never be at the airport, always away from it
unless it is for some kind of airshow type demonstration.


Around here, we have several airports where the jump area is right over
the airport. The jumpers land in the grass next to the runway.

I understand that, that happens all over the place. But have the FAA come
over to your jump club for a Wings type safety presentation and have the
nice FSDO person give you all the FAA reccomendations for jump operations.
They will always reccomend that the landing zone be a few miles away from
the airport, well outside the normal traffic patterns.