CAP Members who jump out of perfectly good airplanes..

[Smokey]

Sorry but I cannot force myself to jump from a perfectly good airplane. As  a cop I handled a parachuting accident in 1978. It was his 100th jump!  Main chute failed, he cut loose and witnesses said he began to tumble. It seems he was trying to get back into the spread eagle position when he landed face down in the front yard of a house---plus he bounced once. The handle for the rserve chute waas still tucked in his pocket.  

When I got to the airport to interview his jump buddies they were mad at me because I was delaying their takeoff for the next jump...they had two more scheduled!

Besides ruining his day...he ruined mine too.  It was 15 minutes before the end of my watch (1545 Hrs) and he land only 25 feet into my county. A little further west and he would have not been my problem!

So.......I think I will take the trip up in the plane and back down again, thank you.

[alamrcn]

I've got one solo Hollywood jump. I don't have any interest in it as a sport, nor the funds to alocate towards it. But having my one day of glory falling through the sky, I can appreciate those that get really into parachuting on a regular basis.

Good-on-ya for keeping up with the sport!

While I don't EVER see Civil Air Patrol involving parachuting into ANY of it's activities, I do wish that CAP would acknowledge it as a legitamit aviation activity.

Soaring and Ballooning are, and even Ultralites (gulp) now. So, why not Parachuting?

-Ace