Side door or tailgate?

[grue 1]

Well, that's sure as hell not going on my to-do list.

cavete terrae.

[Remster 30]

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What's this painted red line stuff?

In most tailgate planes, there is a line where you cant have more then x skydivers behind it. Its to limit the weight in the rear section of the plane to avoid stalls.

Typically, it 8 to 10 jumpers max depending on the plane.

Remster

[peacefuljeffrey 0]

Has this actually occurred??

I would have imagined that the airplane would still have some momentum to get it at least a little bit ahead of the jumpers... I fly and I understand stalls, but I have not heard of any that actually caused a plane to do a sort of retrograde slide... However, one thing I can imagine would be a spin, not just a stall, which might send the airplane into its stall/spin recovery back toward, or under, or on top of the jumpers.

I don't fly Skyvans (I should be so blessed) but I would think there's no guarantee that the stall will not break to one side or the other, causing this sort of situation.

-Jeffrey

-Jeffrey
"With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

[Remster 30]

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all the occupants to fall out the back door

Or get pinned to the ceiling/walls... Stalls are not your friends....

Remster

[AndyMan 7]

It happened at Skydive Chicago years ago. Somebody who's been around longer than I can tell the story. Roger Nelson was the pilot, and he used to love telling the story.

I don't think it's actually killed anyone.

_Am

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You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

[peacefuljeffrey 0]

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all the occupants to fall out the back door

Or get pinned to the ceiling/walls... Stalls are not your friends....

No, but in a Cessna 152, they are fun as anything!!

-Jeffrey

-Jeffrey
"With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

[Remster 30]

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Has this actually occurred??

Plenty. Never to me, but I'm sure some people will chime in here about their stories! lol

It can be bad... Some people had their arms broken in stalls.

Remster

[peacefuljeffrey 0]

Yeah, but I meant has it happened that a Skyvan/Casa has plowed through a field of skydivers in freefall after stalling and dumping them out? That's a horrifying thought.

-Jeffrey

-Jeffrey
"With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

[tbrown 26]

I'll go up and jump out of almost anything, but I sure do love Skyvans. They're just so much more fun. Noisy though...

Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

[PhreeZone 20]

Never came close to plowing into jumpers When it happened at a midwest boogie years ago out of the Casa the jumpers even managed to make some of a formation. The plane would have to do a retroslide at well into 75 knots to catch back up to the jumpers that were tossed out the door.

Yesterday is history
And tomorrow is a mystery

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[bch7773 0]

tailgate. you can launch rafts, large RW exits. also you can just run down the aircraft and leap straight out the back.

MB 3528, RB 1182

[Travman 6]

I love doing a running exit, lots of fun.

[GQ_jumper 4]

luv the door, i like hitting that relative wind the second my bod is out.

tailgates can be fun with the exception of a c130!!!! god i hate the tail wake they have

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

[riggerrob 643]

Any airplane that allows me to stand on my hind legs - like a white man - and carry my tandem student out: Buffalo, Cariboo, C-130, Skyvan, etc.

[Remster 30]

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large RW exits

Actually, you can launch a bigger chunck out of an Otter. There have been some 20 to 22 ways launched from an otter a couple years ago (Zhills if I remember right). Yes, thats a linked 22 way.

Remster