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O .. M .. G ...

I have a very simple rule...
Never jump out of a perfectly good airplane!

What a scary situation:eek:
 
That's not a sight or camera angle you see every day! (and I am okay not seeing it too)

Glad they recovered.

Dean
 
That...is....incredible....
 
I think the pilot is just having some fun too. On our airport the jumpers and the plane are always competing to get down on the ground first and it is at Vne all the way...
 
Could that be the pilot bailing out at about 1:41?:)
 
fia said:
I think the pilot is just having some fun too. On our airport the jumpers and the plane are always competing to get down on the ground first and it is at Vne all the way...
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King Air isn't approved for intentional spins, so if the pilot was having "fun" then he should have his certificates suspended or revoked...
 
I have jumped, and after about the 6 th jump I felt safer landing under a chute than I did in a plane. FACT. landing under a sport parachute in peace time is safer than landing on a Delta flight. Statistics.

Life is a barrel of fun.

Ken
 
I agree - I used to skydive back before I started flying. I couldn't wait till we got enough altitude so that I could get out as it was safer outside the plane than it was in. Plane was a an old 182 with enough holes in it that you could see the ground as you're waiting to get to altitude.
 
I dropped skydivers back in college. Imagine taking off in a C-182 with the passenger door removed, you look down and see the 320 lb jumpmaster and his student holding on to your seat…a Cessna seat no less, the one that’s known to come loose and slide backwards.
 
In my younger days I was a jump master with several hundred jumps. I remember jumping out of a king air at the world free fall convention and the pilot would go into a steep dive after we got out at 14,500’ and you could see him dropping at the same speed or faster than we would. Belly down position free fall terminal velocity is about 120 mph. We would open our canopies at about 3,000’ and he would be on the runway every time before we landed. As we were walking back to the pack area, he would be loading up the next group of jumpers.
 
​​​​​​We had a pilot who would do the same thing - after the jumpers were away he would just circle down and always be on the ground before us. One time I had an adverse event where my container release accidentally got pulled in the plane. Can be a real dangerous event and I had to sit there with the parachute behind me to keep it captured while we descended. First time I'd ever come down with him in the plane in a spiral looking at the ground through the windscreen. It was a very quick education:eek:
 
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