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UP AND AWAY
A day in the skydiving pilot life, takeoff at max tow with aft, aft, aft, weight, 2000 to 3000 da, climbing through clouds, constant pitch up attitude, trying to climb at max power, but keeping the oil temp from pushing through the red. At 11,000, door open, four jumpers hanging off your strut, max left rudder, max left on the yoke, stall speed a coming, jumpers away, stomp the left rudder, got to get that door shut. Now get down at 4000 feet per, dont shock cool, configure the plane, pick up another load, about 16 loads per day. I carry more passengers than american eagle on a good weekend!
YEAH! Sounds just like what we do at the airlines!
I flew jumpers for a little bit. I'm not saying that its not challenging flying, but every flight is pretty much the same. There's only so much useful experience one can gain from all VFR .3 flights.