Originally Posted by hair of the dogma
Strecthing the story a bit far aren't you Sailing, I've had the 18th skydiver get out of his own accord because it is too squashy. First I have heard of a van going with 22. Even if that counted pilot I cant believe it. 209 on the other hand.....
I was in the right hand seat and had a pretty good view of the crowd in the back, there were 20 plus me+pilot. Low fuel light was flashing as we taxied, when i queried it the pilot said there was enough to get to 14,000 and back.
I occasionally flew the 182 for them when the pilot was too drunk from the party the night before, but I gave it and the skydiving away because of the way things were run. There was a classic video from inside the 182, flown by a young ex RAAF cowboy, being barrel rolled in the climb with 6 pob (and pre restraint rules)!
I should point out that this was quite a few years ago and the dropzone has had a complete change of management and was being run well when I left over 2 years ago!
And yes, if only we'd had a 209T!