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Originally Posted by The Reaper
That is why we don't do CARP.
TR
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Hey Now easy there TR,
Right around 76/77 the AF was playing with AWADS (Adverse Weather Air Delivery System). Just think Blind CARP in shitty weather.
They needed experienced jumps because of the special nature of the jumps so SF was tagged. The way it worked was when the weather got real shitty the phones would ring, companies assembled and off we would go to jump.
The oddball in all this was the CCT had two sets of teams working against themselves. One to help the planes to the DZ and the other trying to jam them off.
The problem for us jumpers was, "Yes, the world is a drop zone but you would like to know which way to start walking when you hit the ground." Generally you would come out of the fog, mist, rain just as you hit pine trees. And there you are. Standing all alone and having absolutely not idea where you where. It would take until noon to get people rounded up from a midnight jump.
The CCT would give the DZ party their best guess as to where the green light came on and they would get over in the area and drive up and down roads. The jumpers would listen for the sound of vehicles and move in that direction. If you hit a road stay on it.
I pulled both the ground and jumping side of that detail and it was a coin flip as to which was better.
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