by Bob Walsh
Yes, If you are an adrenaline junkie who gets his rocks off by jumping out of functional aircraft your life MAY have just gotten a bit safer.
My local assemblywoman, Susan Talamantes Eggman, proposed the bill that was passed UNANIMOUSLY by both houses and signed into law by Governor Moonbeam. This new law allows people who are turned into grease spots to sue if it turns out their instructors or parachute packers were not in compliance with federal standards. (I always thought you packed your own chute, or at a minimum you packed your own back-up chute.) The bill was introduced after a first-time jumper doing a tandem jump was turned into a street pizza. It turns out his instructor was not properly certified for tandem instruction.
The law will be enforced by Caltrans. I guess they will now start a division of vertical transportation.
Current applicable federal law is incumbent on the individual instructors, not on the company that employs them or operates the sky diving centers.
Damn, I feel safer already. (Of course I don't jump out of perfectly good aircraft, because I am not an idiot.)
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