Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
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.
I had some friends land at a non towered airport in VA when it was 500 OVC. That was back when we were all new to IFR flying and they were excited over their hard IFR approach and landing...
... and then came a couple of skydivers through the overcast.
And i always like the statement "why would I ever jump out of a perfectly good airplane!?" In my life experience, including the first crash aftermath I saw first hand, those were never perfectly good airplanes - so feel free to jump.