1958 Parachute Club of Canada Basic Safety Regulations

Scanned from Canpara, Jan/Feb 1985, which reprinted an early set of regulations. According to PIM 2, the Parachute Club of Canada was formed in 1956.

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These regulations were Basic (safety) regulations adopted at the Annual meeting of the Parachute Club of Canada, January 2. 1958 at St. Catharines Airport, ON.

I . Students will not be permitted to make their first parachute jump at a public gathering.

2. No one will be allowed to join the PCC or make a parachute descent while influenced by a bet or dare.

3. Parachutes will not be loaned or rented to unqualified or unknown persons for the purposes of making a parachute descent.

4. No member shall make or attempt to make a parachute descent while under the influence of any drug or intoxicating beverage.

5. No member shall make or attempt to make a parachute descent from the seat of an aircraft wherein is installed a control column or wheel unless said control column or wheel is removed.

6. Training parachute descents shall not be made when the surface wind velocity is in excess of 18 mph (eighteen). These restrictions will not apply when descent is made into water.

7. During training jumps, parachutists must have their equipment and parachute checked by another PCC member.

8. No parachutist shall make or attempt to make a parachute descent without carrying both a main and reserve parachute, on one harness.

9. Clothing, footwear, and headgear for the intended jump must be of a kind and make approved by the PCC. The only exception to this rule being where extenuating circumstances may prohibit use of such equipment

10. Flotation seat must be worn, and a boat in attendance where water is the intended or even possible landing area.

11. No parachutist shall make or attempt to make a parachute descent with equipment which is deemed unserviceable by the PCC for the intended jump.

12. All parachutes, both main and reserve, must be packed by a person considered qualified by the PCC.

13. Parachute descents shall not be made with the use of bat‑wings or similar devices.

14. Parachutists will not descend or plan to descend into an area where such a descent may be deemed to be a public hazard.

15 Parachute descents shall not be made from aircraft in close formation.

16. Hesitators, or similar devices, shall not be used except for specific and premeditated reasons, as well as with the knowledge of the parachutist.

17. Parachutists must not jump with chutes that have not been packed within the previous two months.

18. All parachute descents must be planned to be open by at least 2,000' and that the time to ground to be more than 12 seconds. It is generally recommended that parachute descents be planned with a higher safety factor, more so for the student.

19. No test or experimental type parachute descent is to be made with Club equipment unless authorized by the recognized leader of the group,

20. At all times, the rules of the Department of Transport regarding parachutes and parachute jumping must be strictly adhered to.

21. No student shall be accepted for parachute training and, or jumping unless said student has passed or reached his/her 18th and has not yet passed his, her 36th birthday, except with special qualifications'.

22. Members under 21 years of age will not be permitted to jump without a signed waiver having been received from said members' parent or guardian.

23. Prior to being accepted to parachute training, the applicant must have completed a satisfactory medical examination by Club approved medical examiner.