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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

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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