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Date:  4-29-2009
Number of Hours:  1.00
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Brief Description:  Flight 45

0.5 flight time. Did 4x around the pattern, all wheel landings. On the first departure, a jump plane that had been making some odd calls dropped the jumpers - about a dozen of them. Second time around the pattern, another dozen jumpers were out. 3rd time around, the C-130 called on downwind to land and pick up the jumpers. And a chase plane (looked like a Texan II) called right behind him. So I did a right 360 on the upwind end of the field for spacing, but they were well out of the way by then. I know the traffic pattern here is set up for jumpers on the NW side of the field, and it's marked as a jump location on the chart, but this is the first time I had seen them. This was between 0630 and 0700 in the morning on a week day. On my 4th roll-out, kept about 1400 rpm on and held the tail up down to the 2nd taxiway. Tail is much easier to hold up with flaps on.
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