On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 07:00:24 GMT, Bela P. Havasreti
wrote:

On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:30:07 -0600, Mike Weller
wrote:

Buddy of mine used to fly skydiving ops in the early 1970s.

One time, after a long, hot climb to altitude in a 182, as the
skydivers exited, one of them grabbed the ignition key, turned
it to the "OFF" position and promptly exited the aircraft with the
key in his hand (my fiend, choices somewhat limited, glided back
to the airport below and dead-sticked her in).

After that, he always carried a spare key in his pocket for the
skydiving airplane he happened to be flying....

Bela P. Havasreti


I've heard that too.

It never happened to me, but flying a 182, it would not be something
that would really cause a problem. After all, they were over the
airport.

It's not that hard to land a 182 on a 2000 foot runway that's not used
for anything other than sky diving. Just get off the runway for the
182.

In my experience, of course, there were more problems with hauling sky
divers than having to just glide the plane back to the runway.

And I mean this in the best way. To a one, all of the sky divers that
I've met were meticulous in their equipment and the overall operation
of the way that they did things. First rate in every aspect.

Mike Weller