Flight with door removed

You can cheat the regulators, but you can't cheat the laws of physics...

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message .a crash here
in 1975 was attributed to bogus W&B info from unauthorized skydiving mods
to a Queen Air including seat and door removal.

REMOVE TO REPLY.pdb wrote:
See: FAA AC 105-2C paragraph 23
http://www1.faa.gov/avr/AFS/ac105-2c.txt
This covers the general requirements to remove a door and the appendix
contains a list of aircraft approved to do so.
Pete Brown

Thanks, Pete. That's pretty much what I was looking for.

Dale wrote:

Geez, that was almost 30 years ago...

No, it wasn't. It was about five years back, IIRC.

George Patterson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you look forward to the trip.

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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote:

Dale wrote:

Geez, that was almost 30 years ago...

No, it wasn't. It was about five years back, IIRC.


Okay, I'm in Alaska so it's a different time zone..maybe that's it. He
said 1975, up here that's closer to 30 years than 5 years. G

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Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flying.html

Gee wizz Dale, you fly jumpers door off in Alaska? Thats cold and maybe
brave!
I jump-pilot in South Africa, and we've got in-flight doors, and we think
it's cold!
Nigel


Okay, I'm in Alaska so it's a different time zone..maybe that's it. He
said 1975, up here that's closer to 30 years than 5 years. G

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flying.html

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"Nigel T Peart" wrote:

Gee wizz Dale, you fly jumpers door off in Alaska? Thats cold and maybe
brave!
I jump-pilot in South Africa, and we've got in-flight doors, and we think
it's cold!
Nigel

In-flight door.

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flying.html

Dale wrote:

Okay, I'm in Alaska so it's a different time zone..maybe that's it. He
said 1975, up here that's closer to 30 years than 5 years. G

I expect that's a typo - probably 1995. A Queen Air went into a house down near
Ron about five years ago carrying jumpers. The news had something about W&B, the
number of people on board (something like 18 jumpers), and the fact that it wasn't
supposed to be flying without a door.

George Patterson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you look forward to the trip.

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ...


Dale wrote:

Okay, I'm in Alaska so it's a different time zone..maybe that's it. He
said 1975, up here that's closer to 30 years than 5 years. G

I expect that's a typo - probably 1995. A Queen Air went into a house down near
Ron about five years ago carrying jumpers.

George is right. 1995. It was a typo. I wasn't even living in Virginia in '75.

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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote:


I expect that's a typo - probably 1995. A Queen Air went into a house down
near
Ron about five years ago carrying jumpers. The news had something about W&B,
the
number of people on board (something like 18 jumpers), and the fact that it
wasn't
supposed to be flying without a door.


Thought maybe so...I remember the one in '95.

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flying.html

A King Air went in a year, or so, ago with jumpers... The ship was to my
home field, KHYX, just a couple of weeks prior and I chatted with the
owner/pilot...
Go flying when you can, say you love your wife and kids when you see them,
ya never know - life can be short...
denny

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message George is right. 1995.
It was a typo. I wasn't even living in Virginia in '75.