ZMA controller reported of a situation where an aircraft was climbing to assigned altitude and went ...

Narrative:

I was aware there was parachute jumping and it was announced by my radar controller. I was busy getting strips and on the landline with fpr and vrb towers with coordination. R4 reminded us of the parachute activity and my radar controller turned the aircraft to the west of the airfield. It was hard to tell from the d-side how far away he was from the airport but it seemed pretty close; maybe a mile. He then went up a few hundred feet and when R3 assigned him 4;000 again he reported something like 'you should tell that parachute company that they are illegally jumping with no proper cloud clearance. We just popped out of a cloud and we were 200 feet from a collision with one of them.'after the event was over; the R3 controller and I discussed it would be a good idea to have a red circle drawn around the airport area and keeping the jump plane on the scope. He said he had dropped it due to clutter. Also; pilots should pay attention to the reminders of the jump so they can jog our memories if we forget or get too busy to focus on that particular duty.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: ZMA Controller reported of a situation where an aircraft was climbing to assigned altitude and went through some clouds. As the aircraft exited the pilot reported that a skydiving aircraft was illegally jumping due to close proximity to the clouds.

Narrative: I was aware there was parachute jumping and it was announced by my radar controller. I was busy getting strips and on the landline with FPR and VRB towers with coordination. R4 reminded us of the parachute activity and my radar controller turned the aircraft to the west of the airfield. It was hard to tell from the D-side how far away he was from the airport but it seemed pretty close; maybe a mile. He then went up a few hundred feet and when R3 assigned him 4;000 again he reported something like 'You should tell that parachute company that they are illegally jumping with no proper cloud clearance. We just popped out of a cloud and we were 200 feet from a collision with one of them.'After the event was over; the R3 controller and I discussed it would be a good idea to have a red circle drawn around the airport area and keeping the jump plane on the scope. He said he had dropped it due to clutter. Also; pilots should pay attention to the reminders of the jump so they can jog our memories if we forget or get too busy to focus on that particular duty.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1292245
Time
Date	201509
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZMA.ARTCC
State Reference	FL
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Small Aircraft Low Wing 1 Eng Fixed Gear
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Handoff / Assist
Qualification	Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Experience	Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 27
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Conflict NMAC Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

ZMA controller reported of a situation where an aircraft was climbing to assigned altitude and went through some clouds. As the aircraft exited the pilot reported that a skydiving aircraft was illegally jumping due to close proximity to the clouds.