January 10, 200619 yr This reminds me of my first rejoin ever in a T-6. https://www.m90.org/index.php?id=10525 **PROBABLY NOT WORK SAFE** (has links and ads for "adult" material)
January 10, 200619 yr There was a guy a few years ago who was in freefall and fell between the horizontal stabilizer and the wing of a slurry bomber...talk about lucky!
January 10, 200619 yr There was an incident a while back where a jumper hit the tail wing. This strike locked the horizontal stabilizer in a down position crashing the c-182 with all four on board being killed. THe jumper broke his ankle. Sucks huh? That video was a close one!
January 10, 200619 yr Originally posted by gearpig: What's even more amazing is the amount of hot women that supposedly exist here in town according to the ad above the movie. Where do they keep 'em!? I was wondering the same thing. :confused:
January 10, 200619 yr Some zoomies here might recall what the leading edge of the wing on a big yellow glider looks like after impacting a PTWOB chute deployment bag... [ 10. January 2006, 09:19: Message edited by: FourFans130 ]
January 10, 200619 yr Originally posted by gearpig: What's even more amazing is the amount of hot women that supposedly exist here in town according to the ad above the movie. Where do they keep 'em!? I think you may be talking about the same incident I heard of at the Deland airport not too far from Orlando, FL. That place is a mess. I would never jump there. The airport is a mess. The guy who flies the skydiving plane is known to cut people off in the pattern, land on the downwind end of the runway and just overall be unsafe. He calls skydivers away and you better watch out. There are close calls there all the time. They need to add a tower at that airport.
January 10, 200619 yr Originally posted by ucf_motorcycle: I think you may be talking about the same incident I heard of at the Deland airport not too far from Orlando, FL. That place is a mess. I would never jump there. The airport is a mess. The guy who flies the skydiving plane is known to cut people off in the pattern, land on the downwind end of the runway and just overall be unsafe. He calls skydivers away and you better watch out. There are close calls there all the time. They need to add a tower at that airport.
January 10, 200619 yr I've done alot flying around Deland, its a nuthouse when the jump plane is up there. I've seen the jump plane drop out of the sky right in front of me through the pattern just to get to his opposing runway faster. Sure, he'll do the hold short of active, but its the entry that scares us. I've also seen jumpers cross my path on final. People die there VERY regularly. There's no way I'd jump from there.
January 11, 200619 yr I think you may be talking about the same incident I heard of at the Deland airport not too far from Orlando, FL. That place is a mess. I would never jump there. The airport is a mess. The guy who flies the skydiving plane is known to cut people off in the pattern, land on the downwind end of the runway and just overall be unsafe. He calls skydivers away and you better watch out. There are close calls there all the time. They need to add a tower at that airport. I've both jumped from and flown there many times. The jumping is usually pretty easy to deal with as long as you have half of one side of your brain... they have a specific pattern - just like a flying pattern - laid out for you to follow that helps you deconflict from traffic, and use the winds. As for the airport, a tower will be there in the next year or 2. Other than that, it's not much worse than a lot of the other non controlled airports I've been to (especially with Riddle pilots buzzing around ;) ), and the jump planes are now required to follow more normal procedures for landing and flying the pattern, etc. Personally, I love having a few jumps there, then going straight to the bar for a
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