Cessna pilot describes a conflict with skydivers landing as he is departing.

Attributes
ACN	1303958
Time
Date	201510
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	N85.Airport
State Reference	NJ
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Cessna Aircraft Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Takeoff
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 17 Flight Crew Total 2200 Flight Crew Type 2000
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Airborne Conflict
Miss Distance	Horizontal 500 Vertical 200

Narrative:

While departing runway 26 during daylight VFR at N85 there was parachute jumping taking place. Although the jump landing location is 600 ft from the center of the runway; one of the chutes came close enough to the runway that I turned away from it shortly after rotation. I turned about 20 degrees or so to maintain a safe distance from the landing chute which was about 300 ft AGL.the lesson here is that you never know what the chutes are going to do; so wait until they land. In this instance I had already back taxied to the end of runway 26 and another aircraft had just turned base on their approach to runway 26. In hindsight I should have waited before beginning my takeoff roll. The landing aircraft would have had to do a go around but if I'm ever in that position again I'm not departing until the chutes are on the ground.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Cessna pilot describes a conflict with skydivers landing as he is departing.

Narrative: While departing Runway 26 during daylight VFR at N85 there was parachute jumping taking place. Although the jump landing location is 600 ft from the center of the runway; one of the chutes came close enough to the runway that I turned away from it shortly after rotation. I turned about 20 degrees or so to maintain a safe distance from the landing chute which was about 300 ft AGL.The lesson here is that you never know what the chutes are going to do; so wait until they land. In this instance I had already back taxied to the end of runway 26 and another aircraft had just turned base on their approach to runway 26. In hindsight I should have waited before beginning my takeoff roll. The landing aircraft would have had to do a go around but if I'm ever in that position again I'm not departing until the chutes are on the ground.

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