Any skydiver drivers out there?
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Any skydiver drivers out there?
Just thought I'd start a thread for us all.
Nine loads last Saturday and only one of them tried to grab the controls
Nine loads last Saturday and only one of them tried to grab the controls
Perhaps many of us canīt see the point of jumping out of a perfectly working airplane 
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Perhaps many of us canīt see the point of jumping out of a perfectly working airplane
Celtflyer I (may or may not
) have done it in IMC, but if I did, I would have learned quickly how stupid it was, to even punch through a layer in an a/c that wasn't really equipped for it. Sometimes we're allowed to learn from our actions. In any event, Wx is not often a problem here in Texas. Nothing forced though as I'm flying for a mate (and mentor) really so it's all good fun. It really is. Plus I had 500 jumps before I started flying jumpers anyway, so I have a different perspective there too.
My personal minimums revolve more around what the wife will say when I eventually return home
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I'm a jump pilot on the mighty piston islander
I've heard this so many times! I usually say "what makes you think you've ever been in one?" If they're clever they say "ok, why jump out of an adequately serviceable aeroplane?" and then I say "sorry, we're all out of those too!"
Perhaps many of us canīt see the point of jumping out of a perfectly working airplane
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Did many happy (and a few unhappy ...) hours in Skyvan and Islander, and varoius knackered cessnas. I also did 2,000 jumps and various ratings before I started jump flying.... Happy (but skint) days.
Would like to get back to do some more if I was closer to a DZ.....
So what "perks of the job" did you have?
Would like to get back to do some more if I was closer to a DZ.....
So what "perks of the job" did you have?
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Quite a few ex jump pilots where I am. All now on the 737. Even an ex CCI. I'd love to start our own airline sponsored display team.
With all our past experience we have the know-how. Maybe not the image the airline would like to portray.
I feel sorry for all those people who spend their working lives thinking they can fly when they have the assisstance of a machine all the time. Give them one minute of freefall and they will forget 10,000 hours of P1.
Blue skies
With all our past experience we have the know-how. Maybe not the image the airline would like to portray.
I feel sorry for all those people who spend their working lives thinking they can fly when they have the assisstance of a machine all the time. Give them one minute of freefall and they will forget 10,000 hours of P1.
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Hi,
Never tried the 'van, would have loved to 20 yrs ago when I did my jumper flying. Love the 206, though. On a summer saturday, after the 12th MTOM lift to FL110, the climbout performance finally got so lousy I stopped. Turned out we had 2 cracked cylinders - but the thing would still be able to climb !
Cheers,
RedBar1
Never tried the 'van, would have loved to 20 yrs ago when I did my jumper flying. Love the 206, though. On a summer saturday, after the 12th MTOM lift to FL110, the climbout performance finally got so lousy I stopped. Turned out we had 2 cracked cylinders - but the thing would still be able to climb !
Cheers,
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The 206 is certainly a lot more relaxing, especially when you take it up to fl 110 on a hot summer day, so why are you all doing the paradropping, just to get some hours to move on with your carreer, or is it really what you would like to do till in the end of days?
And I have another question for the guys already flying for an airline, what do the airlines think of para-pilots?
Because everybody always thinks about it as rough flying for cowboys.
My experience however, is that it is quite a challenge everytime again with different winds and different altitudes to arrive on the exitpoint on the desired altitude exactly at the right time.
It is way more demanding than just flying from a to b with an ils at the end. Whatīs your opinion on that?
And I have another question for the guys already flying for an airline, what do the airlines think of para-pilots?
Because everybody always thinks about it as rough flying for cowboys.
My experience however, is that it is quite a challenge everytime again with different winds and different altitudes to arrive on the exitpoint on the desired altitude exactly at the right time.
It is way more demanding than just flying from a to b with an ils at the end. Whatīs your opinion on that?
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Fokkerking,
Well said! A pilot good at this will be the favourite of the jumpers paying for the show! And always changing wx/wind/clouds/traffic - quite a challenge! Wouldn't go back, but I still have nice memories of those days.
Cheers, Redbar1
it is quite a challenge ... to arrive on the exitpoint on the desired altitude exactly at the right time
Cheers, Redbar1
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In the US, you'll need a commercial license as people are being carried for hire. Some places try to get around this by saying we sell them the jump not the airplane ride, but it's stretching it a bit.
Still not as much as one guy I heard of who did it on a student pilot certificate
He had several hundred hours mind and could fly ok. He'd just never got around to taking the tests.
Like everything else, what you need is to be in the right place at the right time
Still not as much as one guy I heard of who did it on a student pilot certificate
He had several hundred hours mind and could fly ok. He'd just never got around to taking the tests.Like everything else, what you need is to be in the right place at the right time
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I saw that one of you here were flying the Islander, so do I. Any of you here who know if there is any place in Austrailia that are flying jumpers with this a/c?? ..or any other nice places in the southern hemisphere?