🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <9301192210.aa11028@ingate.microsoft.COM> garrettt@microsoft.com (Garrett Tolsma) writes:
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>The recent discussion about jumping through clouds got me thinking ....
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>I'm a few hours and a check-ride away from obtaining my private pilots 
>licence. (Which explains why I've made about half the number of jumps 
>last year that I normally would.)
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>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 ...
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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.


As an addendum to my last post I should have said the controllers
I've dealt with in seattle do a good job of keeping IFR guys away
from jump planes. It sounds like others aren't so good, and yes,
you still have to worry about VFR flights.

miolnir