Of course, I misspoke. I should have said that the jump was at or near
our service ceiling (approx. 10,500 ft. ) as we had not rigged the aircraft with an oxygen console and we weren't jumping with O2. From other aircraft, I've gotten several 18,500 ft. [22,000 ft. on a good day] jumps in (both HALO and HAHO). I never got the elusive 33,000 ft. jump. Flying around for 30 minutes, while the jumpers pre-breathed pure O2 to purge the nitrogen from their systems, just got too expensive for Uncle Sam.
