u.s. Deportment 

of Transportation 

_al Aviation 

Administration 

HAY 06 2015 

Mr. Aaron Holly 

Skydive Myrtle Beach 

3032 Falls River Avenue 

Raleigh, NC 27614 

Dear Mr. Holly: 

Flight Standards District Office 125~B Summer Lake Drive 

West Columbia, SC 29170 

rc' ... This letter is in ref~ceio a number of notifications to which this office hilS beeil made 

party. These growing numbers of notifications primarily entail parachute operations in 

which parachutists egressing aircraft operated by Sky Dive Myrtle Beach are reportedly 

landing in areas other than the landing zone as outlined in your Letter of Agreement with Air 

Traffic Control and the Horry County Department of Airports. 

ThaI Letter of Agreement, dated May 11, 2012 and to which your company is a signatory 

clearly states in Section 5, Procedures, (A) (5) -Skydive Myrtle Beach parachutist are 

authorized to land in the defined -Ltuuling Zolle" 0If/y ••••• " Prudence would almost 

certainly dictate that this article of the agreement to which you are signatory was designed 

and installed into the Letter of Agreement in order to ensure not just the safety of any 

jumpers which your aircraft might discharge, but also to protect the safety of persons and 

property on the ground. 

This office has received infOlIlllllion which indicates that since March 15,2015 on at least ten 

different occasions jumpers discharged from Skydive Myrtle Beach aircraft have landed 

outside the designated Landing Zone as defined in your Letter of Agreement. These 

instances in which jumpers have landed outside of the agreed upon Landing Zone are clearly 

a breach of the above mentioned article of the Letter of Agreement; moreover, they appear to 

constitute in their number and on the basis of their repetitive nature; an egregious and callous 

disregard for the safety of not only the jumpers, but the safety and security of persons and 

property on the ground. 

This violation of the aforementioned Letter of Agreement and the subsequent evident 

disregard for the well-being of persons and property represents an intolerable hazard and 

these events must be diminished or eradicated without delay in the interest of operational and 

public safety. It is solely the responsibility of your operation to determine the source of these 

aberrant and unauthorized landings and to exercise due diligence in correcting the root 

problem, regardless of its etiology. 

It is clearly in the interest of all parties concerned, and more urgently in the interest of 

operational safety, that this office would like to make available to you, solely at your 

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discretion, the office of the South Carolina FAASafetyTeam Program Manager. The Safety 

Program Manager, Freddie Kaiser is available, in a completely non-regulatory role to provide 

you and your staff on site with educational programs focusing on basic safety requirements 

and methods, creating safe operating habits, crew briefings and landing zone issues, etc. 

The acceptance or rejection of the educational services of the South Carolina 

F AASafetyTeam Program manager is solely at your discretion. If you choose to avail 

yourself of this service, this office will coordinate with you the safety education options 

which Mr. Kaiser can provide. 

Please provide this office, in writing, with your decision no later than May 15,2015. If you 

choose to decline this offer of safety education, you will be expected to provide an alternate 

means of correcting this clear safety deficit by the same date. 

I look forward to your response. 

Sincerely, i?7 m tZ/. ;1--' -

/ Gary M. Pendleton 

" Front Line Manager, Operations 

South Carolina FSDO 

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