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There is clearly more to this story and we're all on pins and needles waiting to hear it.
Isn't this horrendously illegal?
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BGF_Yankee
Line Up and Wait
True story that happened while I was flying at my local dropzone:
One of the tandem instructors had an iPhone in his pocket. We turn several loads in a row, and during one of these turns, the phone came out of his pocket. He didn't notice until we shut down a couple of loads later. He figured that one of the manifest girls had picked it up for him, so he went about his day not thinking twice about it. Well, toward the end of the afternoon, no one had his phone. He activated the "Find my iPhone" app, and we were shown that the phone was located all the way on the other side of the airfield! After giving it some thought, we figure that when it came out, it was left with one of the tandem parachute rigs that had been loaded in a cart to go back over to the hangar for repacking. No one noticed the phone and we think that it was packed back up in this particular rig. That rig went back up on a subsequent jump, opened, and the phone came out, failing straight down to earth from about 6,000 feet.
After about an hour of searching for the phone through the app, we located it about 6 inches down in the soft dirt, right beneath the spot where the tandems would be opening their chutes (in the general area the app said it would be). Pulled it out, cleaned it off, and it fired right up. There were no scratches, no cracks in the case...nothing. No case on this phone either. I couldn't hardly believe it, and wouldn't have if I hadn't been there! My wife can't drop her phone 3 feet without it breaking, yet somehow this phone survived a fall from quite a bit higher!
Just for Acrodustertoo, the aircraft was a De Havilland DHC6-100 Twin Otter, and no, no flight plan...only VFR Flight Following
One of the tandem instructors had an iPhone in his pocket. We turn several loads in a row, and during one of these turns, the phone came out of his pocket. He didn't notice until we shut down a couple of loads later. He figured that one of the manifest girls had picked it up for him, so he went about his day not thinking twice about it. Well, toward the end of the afternoon, no one had his phone. He activated the "Find my iPhone" app, and we were shown that the phone was located all the way on the other side of the airfield! After giving it some thought, we figure that when it came out, it was left with one of the tandem parachute rigs that had been loaded in a cart to go back over to the hangar for repacking. No one noticed the phone and we think that it was packed back up in this particular rig. That rig went back up on a subsequent jump, opened, and the phone came out, failing straight down to earth from about 6,000 feet.
After about an hour of searching for the phone through the app, we located it about 6 inches down in the soft dirt, right beneath the spot where the tandems would be opening their chutes (in the general area the app said it would be). Pulled it out, cleaned it off, and it fired right up. There were no scratches, no cracks in the case...nothing. No case on this phone either. I couldn't hardly believe it, and wouldn't have if I hadn't been there! My wife can't drop her phone 3 feet without it breaking, yet somehow this phone survived a fall from quite a bit higher!
Just for Acrodustertoo, the aircraft was a De Havilland DHC6-100 Twin Otter, and no, no flight plan...only VFR Flight Following
bflynn
Final Approach
Yup. Guess I was operating off an old copy of the thread because I didn't see your first post.