Favorite Jump Plane Poll

[diverds 0]

I'm sure I missed a bunch but I think these are the most common at least in the US.

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[GogglesnTeeth 6]

Awwwwwwwwwww
where is the love for the 182's???
Is this poll for just planes we have jumped or all jump planes whether we have jumped it or not??

Goggles and Teeth

"You fall like a greased safe!!!"

[dbattman 0]

There will always be something magical about jumping a Cessna. Takes me back to the IL and TX clubs where I spent my first year jumping off the dope rope.

[Squeak 17]

Gotta love the tail gates
But I also like 182's a couple of our Swoopers are training this week for our Swoop Nationals, so we'll have a bunch of 182 loads for HnPs should be fun

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[sunshine 2]

Super Otter with no benches baby!!

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[Unstable 8]

I can't explain my choice very well, but I just like the King Air - and I really don't give a hoot about the climb rate.... The thing just LOOKS cool...

I love the King Air door (Yeah, that dindy little thing that makes you really follow your buddies out). I love the seat and I love the sound of the engine. It's just a cool airplane...

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[stitch 0]

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Super Otter with no benches baby!!

You just haven't experienced a proper Otter bench configuration, much like my Love Muscle.

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[piisfish 135]

you missed the An-2

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[grue 1]

Yo Dave! You guys get those updated logo files I emailed, for the new products? My email went whacky and accidentally nuked a bunch of stuff,, so let me know if not!

ANNNYYWAY

I love the 182 and 206 because that's what I learned to jump on.

I love the Skyvan because I love the tail exit (haven't jumped a CASA)

I love the Otter because of the big door

I love the King AIr for the speed


But, if I had to pick just one for the rest of eternity it'd need to be one of the tail loaders, because of the versatility. High capacity, not horribly slow, raft jumps and big tubes are possible, etc etc.

cavete terrae.

[piisfish 135]

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I love the Skyvan because I love the tail exit (haven't jumped a CASA)

I love the Otter because of the big door

I love the King AIr for the speed


But, if I had to pick just one for the rest of eternity it'd need to be one of the tail loaders, because of the versatility. High capacity, not horribly slow, raft jumps and big tubes are possible, etc etc.

And it has to be an Antonov
Go for the An-72
Big tailgate, jet plane to 16kft in under 8 minutes with 70 people aboard.

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[ladyskydiver 0]

Can't vote. You don't have the option for - anyone that I can jump out of.

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[flyboyne 1]

Its gotta be the 182. They have been flying jumpers longer than any of the above listed aircraft and you cant beat the cheap jump ticket prices!

[FFlyer 0]

Ive jumped 6 of the planes on your list and have voted for the Twin Otter as my favorite. Big plane, fast to altitude, big door, good run in speed. All round awesome jump ship!

[mamajumps 0]

Ive only jumped from 4 planes and 1 helicopter. My favorite is the Twin Otter, followed close by the 206.

[lilDevil 2]

I did my AFF from a Dornier, gotta love all that leg room :-)

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[yardhippie 0]

The King Air at our dz spoils me bad. its perfect unless you need to launch something really big.
Ive seen 5 way HD lauched out of it! Not to mention that 15 min calls all day long!

An otter takes a close second, as long as its a super otter. man that door is great, just not quite as fast.

Screw a bunch of tailgate aircraft. Theres not really any skyvans flying anymore, I did like the climb on CK's, and the bar! CASAs are just too slow to climb, and if youre doing small way stuff and get stuck as one of the last groups out.... hope you can get back.

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[matthewcline 0]

Other

C-17

But I am spoiled that way
I guess if you ruled out Military Air then a Casa flown by Jim West.

Matt

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So, start being safe, first!!!

[BillyVance 34]

My favorite has to be jumping a big way out of a Casa, and then shortly after landing, get treated to a screaming fly-by of the Casa with its wing-tip just a mere few feet off the ground!

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[wildfan75 1]

I've got nothin' but love for the 182. That's what I'm growing up with and henceforth most comfortable for me.

However, I must say my ride in the Skyvan at Couch this year was...well...very stimulating. I loved the built in vibrating seats! And getting your ass kicked a little when you hit the prop wash for the first time was a blast!

[godfrog 2]

whatever happened to the DC-3s that when you get to the ground you get to wipe the spots of oil off ya or the good old Beech 18 that you could almost starve to death on the climb to altitude! first turbine I ever jumped was a converted beech 18 that ol' col. joe flew!

Experience is a difficult teacher, she gives you the test first and the lesson afterward

[Zing 2]

That one, a Twin Beech converted into the Hamilton Westwind III was my favorite jump plane to fly. At Coolidge, when the Air Farce was still doing training flights for T-37 pilots, the regular Twin Beechs and DC-3s were often "targeted" by the instructors for mock gun passes.
The tables were turned when we got 711DN. It couldn't match a T-37's speed, but it was fast enough to catch one if you spotted it below you after dropping jumpers.
I'll never forget the look on the pilots' faces looking out the top of the tweety bird's canopy the time I came over the top of them inverted ... just like they'd done to me numerous times previously.

Zing Lurks

[billeisele 122]

since the DC-3, Loadstar and Caribou are not listed then have to go with the CASA

favorite dive is launching a 9-way diamond

Twatter is a close second

Give one city to the thugs so they can all live together. I vote for Chicago where they have strict gun laws.

[jasonRose 0]

1) Twin Otter
2) King Air
3) Caravan

Can't speak for the Casa, Porter, PAC-750 but the rest of the listed aircraft are to slow and noisy!!

Get me to alti FAST and I am happy!!

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[bloody_trauma 2]

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you missed the An-2

LOOL thats exactly what i was thinking

Fly it like you stole it

[bloody_trauma 2]

jut for the military you should have put C-130 or C-15

Fly it like you stole it