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- From: koning@koning.enet.dec.com (Paul Koning)
- Subject: Re: Breaking one FAR can ruin your whole day.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.153302.12491@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- References: <9301192210.aa11028@ingate.microsoft.COM> <1jledoINNdju@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:33:02 GMT
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- In article <1jledoINNdju@shelley.u.washington.edu>, miolnir@stein.u.washington.edu (Miolnir) writes:
- |>In article <9301192210.aa11028@ingate.microsoft.COM> garrettt@microsoft.com (Garrett Tolsma) writes:
- |>>...
- |>>Could I be putting my pilots licence at risk if I break a FAR while
- |>>jumping ? (Like exiting the aircraft above the cloud base). I know it
- |>>sounds kind of ridiculous, but some of the FAA horror stories that I've
- |>>heard from other jumpers/pilots makes me wonder ...
- |>{
- |>The only reg I see in the FAR's that actually applies to the jumper
- |>says that you can't throw anything out of the plane unless "reasonable
- |>precautions" are taken to prevent damage to persons or property on the
- |>ground. I think wearing a chute satisfies that requirement. For the
- |>most part the tower isn't out to bust you and the regs leave a lot
- |>up to the pilots discretion. As a matter of principle I avoid TCA's
- |>and the like unless I'm IFR just so I don't have to mess with them.
- |>Just don't do anything blatantly stupid and you'll be fine.
- |>...
- |>miolnir
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- Even if you just look at FAR 91 (the one most likely to be looked at by
- small plane pilots) you can find more relevant rules than that. Look at
- the one that talks about repack requirements for parachutes.
-
- More directly relevant to the original question is FAR 105. A number of
- the rules there -- such as the one relating to cloud clearance -- contain
- phrases of the form "no person shall make, and no pilot shall permit
- to be made, a parachute jump that...". The implication is clear: if such
- a rule is violated, BOTH the jumper and the pilot are at risk from the FAA.
- And for a pilot, one of the risks is loss of license...
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