Years ago I was doing some filming at a Skydive meeting in Spain.
One of the jump ships was a Porter being flown by a Dutch guy who is now a Captain with KLM.
As we were climbing to altitude the clouds obscured the view of the jump from the ground. (It was a large formation attempt from three aircraft).
As we left the aircraft, the pilot did a wing over and put the prop into beta mode (reverse thrust).
On the way down, in freefall, I looked across the formation and I watched this aircraft pointing straight at the ground, keeping perfect station with us. It was surreal.
When we landed I found out that the aircraft air to ground frequency was being patched through loudspeakers on the ground and the pilot was giving a running commentary of the jump during the whole freefall phase.
Sometimes in life you just meet some really cool people.
LM