bumper wrote:
A Skydiving company has approached airport management, wanting to open a
skydiving operation at Minden-Tahoe Airport, Nevada, USA. Minden, as you're
probably aware, is considered by many to be one of the true soaring Mecca,
with superb soaring conditions, beautiful scenery and much more. It also has
a mix of powered aircraft traffic including business jets, with over half
the airport operations being glider related.

There are a number of other airports in the US, and probably elsewhere, that
support both gliders and skydivers, though I'm not sure they have the same
number of operations was KMEV (60 to 70K per year). Safety, is a primary
concern, as is the potential for driving away soaring pilots.

If you have any experience, good or bad, in sharing an airport with
skydivers, please post.

all the best,

- If there is a financial aspect attached to it that will keep Minden
operational and you have no other funding options then yes, but
otherwise keep them out!
Its never safe watching parachuters crossing your final approach,
plus usually these drop zones have high amount of accidents.