Jumpers Away

[BillTIZ]

We have parralle runways with left and right traffic patterns, power aircraft on the west runway, glider operations on the east runway. We do not allow para drops on airport. The DZ is ~4 miles south.

 

[flyingron]

Yup
and ATC. can get purty busy sometimes

I couldn't even imagine

Yep, this is one of several jumper vs. jump plane accidents that I know of. We had one here at Orange as well in a similar thing (in their respective landing patterns).

 

[tinerj]

Okay, here's what I did at KUUV. On take off, I would look at the family and friends to see how heads turned to the sky they were. If looking up and raising the video cameras, I would shut down on the apron and wait until all jumpers were down.

At KUUV the parachute landing zone was very close to the runway -- a short distance from the windsock and pattern cones. But in windy conditions they sometimes landed on the other side of the runway.

When coming in for a landing, I listened for the radio call, and never heard anything except a one time, static filled run-together "jumpersaway." They jumped from 14,000 feet. If I heard it I broke off and flew away from the airport for 15 minutes or so.

But I had to watch out for the twin otter as much as the jumpers because he fell from the sky almost as fast. One one occasion, I made the usual 10 miles out, 4 miles out, downwind for runway #, etc. And as I touched down, he was landing at the other end of the runway. I hadn't heard a single radio call from him.

I moved from KUUV to KFES. Then
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-07-29-planecrash_x.htm

from NTSB:
. . . engines thousands of hours beyond the recommended overhaul . . . pilot used poor technique [to overcome engine out] . . . autofeather system inoperative . . . logs did not show removal of straddle benches . . . only one single point skydiver restraints . . .

 

[flyingmoose]

I moved from KUUV to KFES. Then
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-07-29-planecrash_x.htm

from NTSB:
. . . engines thousands of hours beyond the recommended overhaul . . . pilot used poor technique [to overcome engine out] . . . autofeather system inoperative . . . logs did not show removal of straddle benches . . . only one single point skydiver restraints . . .

Well I happend to read that report here:
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20060803X01086&key=1
Here:
http://dms.ntsb.gov/aviation/AccidentReports/aqra2yjt5l0wxj450ujte5bx1/M05082013120000.pdf
and here:
http://dms.ntsb.gov/aviation/AccidentReports/o0w3ng55saw2m024jubazt451/V05082013120000.pdf
and I was un able to find some of the stuff you said. I see the engine was over recommended overhaul limits, but thats not uncommon in part 91. It doesn't mention when the last HSI was so hard to really tell from the report. Poor technique I seen but heck that happens with a lot of crashes we see these days and a lack of better restraint system contributed but didn't say it was not legal. They have not been known for there seatbelts in the past. Just wasn't sure where you got some of you information or what you were trying to imply.

it actually says :

The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be:
the pilot's failure to maintain airspeed following a loss of power in the right engine due to the fracturing of compressor turbine blades​

for undetermined reasons. Contributing to some parachutists' injuries was the lack of a more effective restraint system on the airplane

 

[tinerj]

Try this, and notice that "According to photographic evidence provided by a witness, the pilot taxied the airplane onto runway 24 from the intersecting taxiway, which is about 1,700 feet from the runway’s west end, and began a takeoff roll to the west from that location, rather than using the runway’s entire 4,500-foot length."

http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/reports/2008/AAR0803.pdf

The only point I was trying to make is that what I observed caused me to move my plane from KUUV to KFES. I later came back to KUUV.