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.


"Newps" wrote in message
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Roy Smith wrote:

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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.