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Students doing maneuvers over the water isn’t a great idea: 1) The horizon is often lost in haze along the coast in Florida. It can be very disorienting especially for new pilots. 2) Calm water can act like mirror (Remember the tragic loss of a Mustang over a lake? It was in Texas I believe.) 3)...

See and Avoid is soooo limited. ATC does their best (usually) to separate VFR traffic around airports, but REALLY BUSY and/or BIG TRAINING airports often leave the controllers overloaded and/or exasperated and/or the good-faith traffic call-out is just too late. I’m not blaming the controllers...

Tragic. Wonder if they had ADS-B In/Out. “See and Avoid” is the VFR law and must be a priority especially for students but it’s not perfect. Much of Florida has extremely high traffic. ADS-B used correctly can sure help. Stay safe everyone!

He requested and received four parachutes. He opted to use the least technically advanced chutes AND took one chute that was marked inoperable and was sewn shut for demonstration purposes. This doesn't take into account the hostile environment and conditions that he jumped into.

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He was definitely very familiar with that plane and aviation, however he was lacking as a skydiver.