Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!umbc3.umbc.edu!umbc2.umbc.edu!robie From: robie@umbc2.umbc.edu (Mr. William Robie; POSI (GRAD)) Newsgroups: rec.skydiving Subject: Re: Message-ID: <1991May10.064649.20910@umbc3.umbc.edu> Date: 10 May 91 06:39:21 GMT References: <1991May9.194510.3844@crl.dec.com> <1991May9.232752.24042@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: newspost@umbc3.umbc.edu (News posting account) Reply-To: robie@umbc2.umbc.edu Organization: UMBC University of Maryland Baltimore county - Baltimore, MD, US Lines: 30 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4 In article <1991May9.232752.24042@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, ds4a@dalton.acc.Virginia.EDU (Dale Southard) writes... >In article <1991May9.194510.3844@crl.dec.com> geer@crl.dec.com (Dan Geer) writes: >>someone just offered me a chance to jump out of their plane. >>this is mucho premature for this novice, but i do have a >>question then - who/where/when/how is this permitted? >>a pointer to a reference would be fine. > >Basically, if you are going to jump at the DZ you'll need. >-premission of the DZ/Airport owner. >-A plane STCed for door removal. >-An emergency rig for the pilot. >-Written notification of the nearest FAA Flight Service Station. > >--> --> Dale UVa (ds4a@virginia.edu) > As usual, Dale is right ... but lest there be no confusion (your posting wasn't 100% clear), you also SHOULD have LESSONS! I certainly hope, in this day and age, that nobody would let some buddy with an old parachute and a pilot's license talk them into becoming a sport-death parachutist... but it has happened in the past. If you are a TOTAL novice, go to a competent parachuting center and learn how first. Actually, the law does not require you to have instruction before jumping out of a plane ... but it doesn't require you to have instructions before sucking on a gun barrel with your toe on the trigger, either. (the gun is cheaper ... and aviation doesn't get blamed for the death that way). Blue ... and safe ... skies! Bill