On another topic, Wes wrote that you needed a Fast card to fly in an airshow, which I think is incorrect and needed only for formation and only covers formation.
However,be that as it may; Wes also mentioned that you needed an FAA card to fly a circle around parachute jumpers in a show.
I had never given that any thought and have never been asked to circle jumpers myself. I know Howard Pardue was once asked to circle them in his F8F, but said it wasn't the best plane for that.
Every time that I can recall, it has been a small acro plane that did the circle flight, like Patty Wagstaff or someone. I may have seen Aeroshell T-6 do is once or so, can't be sure.
But here is the question. If you do need an FAA permit to do this, then what does the permit say? It is not really acro flight, even if you might get near 60* bank angle, so it would not be an aerobatic competency card, and it really isn't formation flight, though maybe that is the closest.
Does anyone know for sure,and has anyone done one of these flights?