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  1. Meatbomber
    Well i can't really help with the original question but anytime i stand with a couple of skydivers and someone ask the above question they usually all turn and point at me saying: the plane's perfect but HE is the pilot! Har har har ;)
  2. Meatbomber
    yea i meant weight and ballance. too few seatbelts available THAT is a blame on the operator for sure.
  3. Meatbomber
    you know what i man tho don't you quade ? I know my responsibilities full well, and i think skydivers should think about theirs a couple of times too.
  4. Meatbomber
    one thing i stumbled over in the thread was that skydivers wouldn't get on a plane that wasn't loaded correctly. This is good.... BUT YOU as a skydiver are most responsible for knowing where to sit in a particular airplane! If you don't ASK!! So an aircraft being loaded wrong in my oppinion it's the skydivers to blame rather than the operation (not for nothing skydivers are also fall under the category SLF... self loading freight ). MB
  5. Meatbomber
    It was PINK, and it has the "Super -2" Conversion Engines. Drop Alt as confirmed by London ATC FL306. Took us only 30 minutes to get there :)
  6. Meatbomber
    no actually a Pilatus PC9
  7. Meatbomber
    Anyhow i find that flying our Skyvan up to FL305 was quite a thing :) Cheers MB
  8. Meatbomber
    Hyas, just found a cool video on www.dieschurken.com: look http://www.freefly.com/data/preview1.rm
  9. Meatbomber
    Woooaaa no Skyvan bashing please... yes it is not the easiest plane to maintain and to operate, but if you are able to it is a great jumpship. Comparing a standard Skyvan to a super Otter is also an unfair comparison, rather look at a Super Otter and a Skyvan with TPE331-6 or Super -2 Engines and you will find out that the "Shed" doesn't compare so badly anymore. Oh yea and the Skyvan has 2 distinct advantages over the Otter: Real Stand up cabin and a rear door besides in the modern world the twin-otters are just as old as the Skyvans ! Cheers MB
  10. Meatbomber
    Oh yea .. the PINK just got a new smile! The stupid looking guy below is me ;)
  11. Meatbomber
    Oh see here the nearmiss: http://www.pink.at/bilder/sc7nosnearmiss.jpg
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    Well he crawled out on the right hand side of the centerline (ditching hatch above co-pilot seat), the r/h enginew is feathered and he never got anywhere close to the left hand side... when he let go he actually felly pretty much straight down away from the a/c missing the nose wheel by quite a distance so to either hit the engine/strut/stubwing you must be pretty far back when you fall off (the whole thing was done at some 75-80Kts). I know it .. i was there, i flew the camera ship. Cheers MB
  13. Meatbomber
    that has been a big discussion on other formums too... i think it's setteled that skydivers are no passengers :) but rather they are aviators thus the defeinition is somewhat different. i'm sure chris can explain better ! Cheers MB
  14. Meatbomber
    Had the pleasure of flying at the Skydivecenter SPA, excellent organization and very motivated and helpfull staff, plane (C208) is in great shape too! The DZ offers pretty much all the facilities you need, the only thing that wasn't perfect was that the aerodrome is being worked on and the landing zone wasn't quite perfect... yet :) MB
  15. Meatbomber
    better leave spotting on rear exit planes to the pilot and the GPS IMO (and my IMO is considering i`m trhe driver too) A lot of folks dislike the Skyvan door for the big gap that's between the end of teh floor and the beginning of the door.... that`s because a lot of owners have the SPLIT door installed where the forward part is big enough to reach down to the ground and act as a bump stop when loading (in the normal config ... don`t try that with the plastic doors ;)) The PINK Skyvan for example has the normal flip-door where the gap between floor and door is no more than 8-10 inch so you don`t have to lean over a gaping hole when reching for the latch.... our door also has automatic up locks so there`s no fideling to get the locking pins in just push the center of the door all the way up and let the locks slide in.. works very nice and it`s really easy to open and lock without feckking it up :) Cheers MB
  16. Meatbomber
    We operate a Skyvan and we try to give everyone new to juming from a Skyvan a little checkout on how to open and close the door... what i don't understand is those people who either fear opening the door and sit right by the latch or those folks who are not interested in how to operate the door... they ever heared the word EMERGENCY ?
  17. Meatbomber
    well the right hand engine is shut down because the ditching hatch through which you crawl out is on the right hand side... so that if you slide off the roof you don't get into the running engine.
  18. Meatbomber
    here's some more pics plus the "seperation" from the plane.. http://www.pink.at/nosetest.htm
  19. Meatbomber
    then go figure this one: http://www.pink.at/bilder/sc7nossitz4.jpg
  20. Meatbomber
    I'm coming from a Skyvan operaion and the last AFF corse that we ran we made practice passes at 5-8.000 feet over the DZ with a few degrees off the heading and announce that with the bell we have in the airplane, the students would then open the flip door and look out, giving signals to the pilot to correct the heading.. anyways we would give the students a bit of time and see if they gave the right signals and if not we'd waggle the tail of the plane a bit and then head over the spot, as soon as we were over the spot we'd ring the the bell again so they would know.. Well a lot of very experienced jumpers wanted to try it as well and i tell you most of them were impressed on just how wrong they would have dropped... There is hardly anybody who can decently spot from a Skyvan especially if there's a load with 25 people behind him. Cheers MB
  21. Meatbomber
    Finaly after 1 year of diverdriving(tm) i've been converted into a diver as well .. over the desert of Tunesia i've been pulled out of the back of our skyvan by my 2 instructors for Level 1 ! Fortunately for me some other pilots where there for the PINK Tozeur 2002 Boogie and i got to jump a lot :) Now 50 jumps later i'm truly convinced that skydivers are maniacs and i'm in fucking love with this sport ! Cheers Phil a.k.a meatbomber and now for some pics from the Boogie: http://www.pink.at/bilder/toe02/tnails/toe02gafsa.JPG http://www.pink.at/bilder/toe02/tnails/pinkwueste.JPG http://www.pink.at/bilder/toe02/tnails/toe2_schlauch1.jpg http://www.pink.at/bilder/toe02/tnails/toe2_schlauch14.jpg http://www.pink.at/bilder/toe02/tnails/toe2_schweb6.jpg http://www.pink.at/bilder/toe02/tnails/tiger1.jpg http://www.pink.at/bilder/toe02/tnails/tiger4.jpg http://www.pink.at/bilder/toe02/tnails/2surf2.jpg http://www.pink.at/bilder/toe02/tnails/hybrid3.jpg
  22. Meatbomber
    "DOH"
  23. Meatbomber
    Yup, that's the Let 410 from Paracentrum Pribram :) i've posted it furher up in the thread.
  24. Meatbomber
    What juistin said lisa :)
  25. Meatbomber
    Ok Kevin who are THOSE really really cute sky-goddesses ? :D smile