There's a lot more to it than that. Sometimes I felt like a babysitter... some of the guys that jump at DZ's are pretty wild. I had one guy that would, because the interior of the aircraft is stripped out, pull on the aileron cross cables in the ceiling of the aircraft during climbout to mess with me. Guys would climb and hang all over the aircraft when they exited... talk about parasitic drag!

One time I had a jumper sitting in the 'slot' and when he turned to get out of the aircraft, his pilot chute got loose and pulled his main chute out while he was kneeling in the door. I had to slam down the right rudder to keep the chute from getting caught on the horizontal stab. The jumper got yanked out of the aircraft and he missed my horiz. stab. by about 1 foot... thank goodness, because I would have had to jump if he ripped it off.

It is a dangerous job... and if you decide to do it, always make sure you wear a chute when you are flying jumpers... it could save your life.