So I was grounded from jumping this weekend due to weather and being in important ground-school stuff... I managed to make it up to the skies on the last flight Saturday. The clouds had broken just enough to let the more experienced skydivers jump, and I got to fly as observer in the copilot seat of our Otter.
It was awesome. I'm going to do it again and hopefully get video of the wing-over the pilot does after the jump-run is done, it was amazing. These guys treetop fly the landing, and that thing stops on a dime.. New life goal: pilot a Twin Otter (although I'll be happy with just having jumped out of one
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Throttling up:
Exactly the amount of character I expected from this plane. I love it!
Skydivers in the back over my shoulder, usually I'm the one jumping out of this thing. This is odd!
You really have to adjust to look out over the console (as a newbie at least), now I know my TrackIR nonsense was correct!
The pilot lining up on his jump run, ready to throw some fun out the door: