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Ending up with a pile of nuts and bolts is as normal as bouncing. I've only buried one gyro pilot, while I've buried twentysix jumpers. Spinning mincer is just a pusher prop. You throttle back before exit. or even shut the engine down and landing dead stick is easy and common in a gyro. Jumpers dead stick all the time and don't think anything of it. It's no weirder than jumping with your wing packed in a bag on your back. It's not nearly as bad as a one chute base rig. As a gyro pilot and a jumper I've gotten used to being an outcast of the fringe of aviation, but most jumpers are open minded about things like gyros. Sometimes at work I ride jumpseat in Boeing 777's . When the 777 pilot's think I'm crazy I just remind them that they'er flying a fly-by-wire airplane with no ejection seat. gyros don't/can't stall. However, Don't get into an RAF gyro unless it has a really big horizontal stablizer on it. Almost all gyros are homebuilt and they might be less safe than the Cessnas and Otters that we're used to . don't die , have fun

Yes, it can be done. I've never seen one built for a person wearing a rig. No, you probably won't find anyone willing to let you jump their gyro. No, you can't jump mine. Yes, if you get the chance to fly in one, do it. ask the pilot to fly you down a river below the trees and go under a bridge. Here's my latest(4th)one

looking for Simon Childs. he jumped a spaceland in the late 70's he also jumped fla and somewhere in the SW he's a brit, and worked off shore oil rigs. thanks for the help