Matt: I found out later that one of the other jumpers had walked up the
wing along side the fuselage before he jumed, and dropped a bag over the
pilot's head. The pilot thought it was me and proceeded to get even. This
was definitely back in the looser and crazier days.

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"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Stuart Fields wrote:
As a past sky diver driver, I used to dump them at 7200 out of a Cessna
182,
and touch down the same time they did. The process I used was to first
close the cowl flaps, close the throttle to 15" of mp.and roll into a
steep
bank. I didn't spin but I did have a tight spiral and typically saw the
VSI
go to numbers like 8,000fpm.
I agree it does sound like the plane ran into the jumper. We used to
have a
BT-13 pilot that loved to split S after the jumpers left the back seat
and
then when the guys got their chutes open, he would buzz just over the
top of
your canopy. It gave me a good dose of adrenalin the first time he did
it
to me.

I think I'd give that pilot a good dose of adrenalin when I stuffed my
.44 mag under his nose after a stunt like that...


Matt