Originally Posted by
alfred_the_great
For the A400, my understanding is an insistence from the MAA that French parachute drops are not enough to clear UK airframes to do the same.
Interesting, wonder what the requirement is?
The bods in our local Regiment de Chasseur Parachutists have been regularly doing their training jumps from A400s onto the local DZ for quite some time now...maybe once a month for a year plus, give or take....last session was early last week.
We're probably lucky to still have tiles on the roof given we were seemingly on the route chosen for the low level transit from a top secret airbase where the paras had boarded to the DZ..... good to see and hear...no complaints ..........
