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A super cool photo of pilot Sig Wilson and #parachutist Marquette MI circa 1930 #avgeek #oldschoolskydiving #pilot A photo posted by Ch...

A good Jump Pilot is always reviewing and never gets complacent. I've flown at drop zones that are located at public airports and at ...

In the video below a fellow Jump Pilot on short final correctly executes a go-around after a skydiver lands on the runway. Humans landi...

Normally when you hear of a skydiver having a "problem", it has something to do with their parachute. However, on Friday near Lima...

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 ...

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...

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

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 ...

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

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....

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

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

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 ...

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...

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

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....

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...

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...