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Old 2nd August 2002 | 16:48
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big.al
 
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From: N.E. Derbyshire, UK
Wunper -

The forced landing was at Winter Haven - not a million miles from Lake Wales. Both of them are nice airfields, although Winter Haven is usually a little busier.

During PPL training my instructor and I were taxying back to the active at Lake Wales having just practiced a short field full stop landing, when there was a lot of babble on the Unicom about 'jumpers over Lake Wales'.

Wondering whether our plane was about to have a job-lot of cardigans land in the prop, we were then descended upon by about ten parachutists, one of them even daring to float right across the front of us whilst the prop was turning (we stopped the moment we saw them so they could maneuver around us). The instructor was of the opinion that if the 'chutist wanted to play chicken with a whirly mincer, that's up to him. I know they go in for adrenalin rush by taking risks, but there's a limit....

Anyway, I digress, have you been to Lake Wales/Winter Haven?

Al.
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