My close encounter

[Xtreme Drone Pilot]

American Airlines, Dallas, 1999

 

[Xtreme Drone Pilot]

Close calls with jets are rare, but with small GA planes flying over the DZs - too many to count.

 

[MAvic_South_Oz]

I've been on a jumplane many times when there's traffic below us. We do check it before jumping out. But with wingsuit freefall flight time of ~3 minutes and range of several miles, it obviously doesn't always work.

Wow, to me that is incredible that a known potential tragedy could be allowed to continue without some redress.
Surely the operators of the skydiving company / group and local airfield operators could get together and work out some sort of protocol to check when skydives are happening ?
I'm surprised FAA doesn't have something in policy about flying in DZs.

 

[ascension]

Wow, to me that is incredible that a known potential tragedy could be allowed to continue without some redress.
Surely the operators of the skydiving company / group and local airfield operators could get together and work out some sort of protocol to check when skydives are happening ?
I'm surprised FAA doesn't have something in policy about flying in DZs.

Skydiving operations are mentioned in ATIS information from airports that have ATIS.
For those that don't, there is no way to do so.
They are on sectional charts.

 

[Dabrain]

Okay I was going to say a "Near Miss" is inches not 20 feet. After seeing those videos 20 feet is way to **** close.