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Old 07-02-2013 | 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid
It's one thing to avoid an airplane, it's another to avoid one dropping meat missiles.
When I used to CFI out of TLH, there was a short paved airport that also had a grass strip that I would use a lot for short/soft operations. A sky diving operation also functioned out of there. Usually the dive pilots were really good about announcing when they were dropping the meatballs.

This time, they didn't. We were on the downwind, I was heads down for a moment showing a student something... I looked up, and a dude under canopy had floated down right into our path.... "I GOT IT!!" A diving hard turn prevented us from giving him the Sully Canadian Goose treatment.