Congratulations on your free-fall. That's got to be one of the better ways to celebrate a birthday.

 

I used to do free-fall in the military. I'd recommend it for any pilot, just to see what it's like to get out of a plane. We lost a C-130 crew off the Oregon coast in 1997, they had a progressive electrical system failure at around 17,000 feet and stayed with the airplane trying to get the engines re-lit. It was completely outside their comfort zone to be jumping out of a plane, especially over water, so they all went in with it. Only FE or survived, all he remembered was waking up floating in the middle of the ocean.

 

I can tell you, were I there, in a C-130 that turned into a glider, you could not have kept me on board that plane.

 

Brian Trubee

 

Scheduled to have my airworthiness inspection on Tuesday.