Skydiving Plane Engine Failure YXJ...no injuries!!!

[ybp]

Here is some 'good news' during a time when it seems all we see on here is bad!!! It seemed initially it was much worse, but the pilot did an excellent job!! Well done!!!

http://www.energeticcity.ca/fortstjohn/ ... lane-crash

[North Shore]

Like, Oh, My God! wow. Thank God they all had parachutes

[CFR]

5 parachutists and a pilot in a 182?

[Prairie Chicken]

To the pilot: Good work on the forced landing!

[dcabrown]

As said above.. 5 parachutists and a pilot in a 182 !?!!?

[ScudRunner]

As said above.. 5 parachutists and a pilot in a 182 !?!!?

Actually it looks like a Cessna 205 or its proper name a C210-5 might just be staring at it though beer goggles.

[into the blue]

Beer goggles - OFF

No, that's actually a C182, either an E or F model (one of the earlier ones). Six people in that?!

[CFR]

I jumped many years ago from a 206. No seats except for the pilot and only enough fuel for a few jump runs. Six stacked in there. Jump master with back to control panel (no second yoke) and the four students sitting on the floor as far forward as we could.

[The Old Fogducker]

Beer goggles - OFF

No, that's actually a C182, either an E or F model (one of the earlier ones). Six people in that?!

That's absoultely nothing at all, ... a measely six people in a 182? ... I fart downwind in the general direction of those wimps. How's a jump operator supposed to make any money hauling a light load like that?

Now here's the kind of loader they need at that jump school...

http://www.pascocountyfair.com/pascobugjam.htm

The Old (jam 'em in) Fogducker

[into the blue]

Oh yeah, they've all got parachutes. What in the world can possibly happen to them?!

OFD, here's a better utilization of available space...er, surface area:

[J31]

5 parachutists and a pilot in a 182?

Jump airplanes are only required to be within weight/balance and each jumper requires a seat belt to hang on to. Not problem to have 5 jumpers in a C182.

[bodyflyer]

Five jumpers in a 182 isn't that unusual, although won't legally work in all 182's.

In the old days it was a matter of how many could cram in based on the pilot's judgment.

But I've been in ones from the late 60's that were already wide bodied (quite important to fitting 5 in!), had a reasonably low empty weight (less than some later models), and had the Wing X wing extensions with spar reinforcements (which bumps the gross from 2800 to 2950 lb, same as some later models). That way, with a light fuel load typical of skydiving ops, one could have jumpers of 165-170lb average (plus gear) and be legal. If we had a couple big guys on board, we'd be down to 4 jumpers.