Skydive Midair

[ATC Watcher]

Originally Posted by Chris2303

In this article it also says that the pilot didn't hold a valid licence

Well, in theory yes, the official BEA report says that the pilot ( 59 years old) held a CPL, with the restriction OML on his Class 1 medical , ( to fly in with multiple crew, so not alone) . He had 13.000 h of which 7500 on the PC6 , he was also the chief pilot of his outfit. But the report does not uses this a contributing factor, the lack of briefing and coordination with the wingsuits and their capabilities , which were unusual for the pilot used to fly parachute divers, , are cited as the main cause.
and he was not banned for flying for life, only one year .

[jimjim1]

Originally Posted by Boeingdriver999

low level base turn to roll wings level over the threshold?

Was that at Kai Tak?

[netstruggler]

In English, draconian implies excessively severe.

Does draconiennes have the same implication in French?

From ‘Le Parisien’…

[Depuis le drame, les mesures de sécurité se sont renforcées et sont plus draconiennes et les briefings sont devenus obligatoires,

[DaveReidUK]

"Strict" would be another meaning, probably more appropriate in this context.

[ATC Watcher]

Yes indeed "strict" would have been a better way to put it , but this a journalist interpretation , "Draconien" means indeed very severe, which was not the case here .the measures taken afterwards were just applying existing rules . . I heard that it was again the usual "normalisation of deviance " The pilot was not the one planned to make that fight, it was last minute thing, , he did not briefed himself on the aerodynamic differences between Jumpsuits and normal parachute divers (which was not the main business of the outfit) , , and each party assumed everyone had been briefed before the flight.
Sadly ,nothing we have not seen before with parachute outfits

[EXDAC]

Originally Posted by ATC Watcher

The pilot was not the one planned to make that fight, it was last minute thing, , he did not briefed himself on the aerodynamic differences between Jumpsuits and normal parachute divers (which was not the main business of the outfit) , , and each party assumed everyone had been briefed before the flight.

Some strange terminology used above, The difference that needed to be understood was that between "wingsuit jumpers" and "freefall jumpers". Most skydivers, of any discipline, wear a jumpsuit. A wingsuit is a very specialized jumpsuit.