home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
- Path: sparky!uunet!bcstec!jno3190
- From: jno3190@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (John N. Otakie)
- Subject: Re: Military flights (Was: Re: Jumping through clouds)
- Message-ID: <C19p1t.Lwu@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>
- Organization: Boeing Computer Services
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
- References: <1993Jan20.035539.16042@cascade.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:08:15 GMT
- Lines: 26
-
- Robin King (king@glacier.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
- >horn@freefall.jsc.nasa.gov:
- >>Anyone else noticed that the military doesn't seem to care that they're
- >>flying over an active DZ?
-
- >Or how about the Highway Patrol planes? (CHP in California)
- >One time I was under canopy at a _clearly_ marked DZ near Hollister,
- >and these two bozos are flying a big circle around the DZ area!!
-
- >You could forgive them for "not knowing about skydivers" except that
- >these planes shared the same damn hangar with another skydive operation
- >in Paso Robles!!! Jeez. I was pissed!
-
- Add the FAA to the bozo list. A couple years ago at Snohomish we had
- the local FAA folks flying their King Air in not-very-big circles around
- our student field at 3000 ft WHILE we were dropping loads from 10k! When
- manifest finally contacted them they claimed that they were just watching
- our operation.
-
- I guess they were afraid that we might be doing something unsafe. ;-)
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- John Otakie e-mail: jno3190@bcstec.ca.boeing.com
- Aerodynamics Techlology Staff Phone: 206-965-5715
- Boeing Commercial Airplane Co. Boeing mailstop: 6M-WC
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-