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Thursday, July 9, 2015

14 Skydivers and Pilot survive emergency landing at Skydive Dubai

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A Grand Caravan owned by Skydive Dubai with 14 Skydivers on-board crash landed at about 8am local time on Tuesday morning. The aircraft had ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

History - Civil Jump Planes dropping more than Skydivers

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Twenty years ago NASA teamed up with a Drop Zone near Mojave, California for their X-38 project. The Jump Aircraft that was utilized was a C...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Review - Engine Failure Immediately After Takeoff - C208B (675 SHP)

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A year ago today the Grand Caravan pictured above operated by Grant Aviation crashed   during its takeoff phase of flight in Alaska. Alt...
Friday, June 12, 2015

Jump Flying, the Rotary Version! By Dan Rose

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Jump Flying, the Rotary Version!   By Dan Rose   T his article is in no way a guide to being a jump pilot, this is written to show ...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Meet our Featured Jump Pilot - Mia with Skydive Jurien Bay

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Meet our Featured Jump Pilot Mia, a Caravan pilot with Skydive Jurien Bay. A drop zone on the beautiful Turquoise Coast of Western Australi...
Thursday, May 7, 2015

*Repost* As a Jump Pilot you should always be watching your Skydivers exit!

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This is a cool shot of my buddy "voodoo" and a tandem passenger exiting our C206 Jump Aircraft at Skydive Taft a few years ago....
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Converting your FAA Commercial Certificate to CAA New Zealand License

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I have received questions in the past from Jump Pilots wanting to know how to "convert their FAA Commercial Certificate to a CAA ...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Meet our Featured Jump Pilot - Orion with Chicagoland Skydiving Center

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Meet our Featured Jump Pilot Orion, a Twin Otter pilot with Chicagoland Skydiving Center. A drop zone that has been in business since 1968 ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Laugh at the Calf..... on the taxiway! - Video

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So here I am, about 5 years ago, on a peaceful Spring Day in Northern California taxiing in my Cessna 182 with a load of skydivers on what ...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

How a Wingsuiter should NOT be exiting your Skydive Aircraft

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This is how a Wingsuiter should NOT be exiting your Skydive Aircraft. This guy is very lucky that he did not strike the horizontal stabilize...
Thursday, March 5, 2015

The USPA Safety Day is March 14th. What will you speak about as their pilot?

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The United States Parachute Association (USPA) designates the second Saturday in March of every year to be its Safety Day and this year that...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Flying the EAA 1929 Ford Tri-Motor!

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Recently I was honored to be able to fly EAAs 1929 Ford Tri-Motor! I flew it out of Shreveport Louisiana (DTN) on a beautiful sunny weekend....
Monday, March 2, 2015

New Jump Pilots, let's have a SAFE and fun 2015!

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Most of the Jump Pilot hiring is done between now and the end of April and I have been reminded of that this past week. A lot of emails from...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Featured Jump Pilot - Shaun from Skydive Santa Barbara

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Meet Shaun, a fellow Jump Pilot that I met a few years ago when I was hired to ferry a Caravan from Georgia to Illinois and then to Colorado...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Google Exec Breaks Felix Baumgartner's World Record Skydive

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Monday, October 13, 2014

Flying Skydivers in the Cessna C208B Grand Caravan

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The Cessna 208A Caravan and 208B Grand Caravan are by far the most common turbine jump airplanes in the world. From Skydive Switze...