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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: caldera on September 28, 2013, 02:42:38 PM
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Made my first skydive today! :x Words cannot express the thrill. Holy S...! :O
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nice :aok ...and no thanks. :uhoh
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Made my first skydive today! :x Words cannot express the thrill. Holy S...! :O
:aok well done sir. Always wanted to try. And while words may not be able to express the thrill it would appear your avatar is at least attempting to. :)
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good job!!!! But remember....no such thing as a good airplane!
Blue Skies!
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Welcome to the brotherhood. :aok
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Only reasonably airworthy.
Just like reasonably seaworthy.
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I jumped one time in college. I made promises on the way down that I've been trying to keep ever since and it's been 33 years. That moment when I stepped off the plane wheel and started to count/fall was the longest moment of my life! At that point there was no turning back :O
Glad I did it as the WW2 history nut in me wanted to know what it felt like, but I'd never jump out of a perfectly good airplane again :)
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And I'm scared of roller-coasters :confused:
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pics or it didn't happen.
jk awesome, awesome to the max :aok
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VIDEO or it never happened!
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Thanks guys. It was definitely the single coolest thing I ever did (and my part was pretty easy - just fall out).
I was in the same boat as you, Jeep. Finally got it done at the ripe old age of 47. :old:
There were two young lady jumpers there that could be avatar worthy. In fact, there were a lot of girls there and at least four were hot. Might have to start lurking around the airport more often.
but I'd never jump out of a perfectly good airplane again :)
:lol Guppy. I put down a deposit on a second jump. It's just too much fun.
It happened, but I'm not paying $69 for a video to prove it. :neener:
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I did that some years ago. I would have kept going up and down if it hadnt been so expensive.
After I had jumped I ran into some people who were waiting to go. There was one girl who was afraid of birds. She asked me if I had seen any.
I said oh yes! I fell through a flock of ducks. They were quaking at me flying all over and trying to bite me with their beaks!
The whole time she is saying no! No!! NO!!!!!!
hehehehhehe
Another guy was strutting around looking the hard guy before we jumped. It was all our first time and we were doing tandem jumps. I couldnt help but notice that as we got closer to the jump the guy was getting rather pale. Part of the training was that we would pull the rip cord ourselves and not the instructor. As we were practising how we would fall I asked this guy if he was going to remember to pull the cord? In a rather excited voice he asked "What cord?" to which I replied the one that opens the chute, to which he replied even more excitedly "I HOPE SOMEBODY DOES!". I have to admit they probably shouldnt have taken that guy up.
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Another guy was strutting around looking the hard guy before we jumped. It was all our first time and we were doing tandem jumps
Yeah, there's one in every crowd. I've flown about 6000 loads of jumpers and students were favorites. Watching the emotions play over them as we gained altitude. Usually start out yakking like a magpie then as "the time" gets closer they get quieter and quieter. The macho types on the ground tended to be the most timid at exit time, but only had two jump refusals and one of them we just made a second pass and she was okay getting out. One little gal yakked all the way to altitude, seemed like a bit of a ditz but come door time she walked right out onto the gear leg (206) and started pointing out landmarks on the ground "There's my house!". Performed nearly perfectly on her AFF #1.....we never saw her again.
The whole point of the tandem is to have someone there to take care of you so the guy that was freaked was okay to jump with...but on the ground you suggest he take up bowling.
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Well done, my first skydive was, actually, parachute jump and it lives vividly in my memory. Since that I made two tandem jumps. Well I had to as a skydive pilot in order to prove I have the right stuff. They were boring mostly because I completely trust the the Tandem Masters I work with.
But today 27 people jumped out of airplane and it was a vivid moment in their lives. Included was an American guy who used to be a skydive pilot and jumped for the first time and was speechless afterwards. Another was Peter O'Toole's daughter, that's Peter O'Toole of the Lawrence of Arabia the movie. She was so happy. Afterward she commented how beautiful it was above the clouds with the sun setting. I agreed and delayed the descent while I skimmed the red rimmed clouds that looked liked a solid alien landscape.
I'm a total cynic but even I thought that was a good day.
The skydivers I work never seem to have lost the excitement of falling to Earth wearing a pocket hankerchief.
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At the time I made my one jump, it wasn't tandem. We had static lines hooked to the chute. Our training, at least to me, seemed to be jump horror stories as we heard about more splats and unopened chutes than anything else. I imagine it was to try and find out before we went up if one of us wasn't really up for it. I was first out as it was suggested to me that was easier than watching someone else fall away first.
The time from letting go of the plane to the chute opening seemed like an eternity :)
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Welcome to the brotherhood. :aok
What he said :aok
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I did the static line thing too. What was unsettling was that the place had had their first fatality the day before and this was announced at the welcome session.
To not pay $65 to have a record of the jump is crimminal in my opinion. They didn't have video when I went, but they had a camera on the wing. Probably cost me $50 way back then to get the pictures. Here's one:
(http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa409/Christopher_Morris/skydive_zps26e479c5.jpg)
Not a great shot, it is tough to see the look of panic on my face and the big vein bulging out on my forehead, but I have a record of it and you can see them on the original (this is a scan of that).
If I were to do it today I'd have a GoPro video of it and would have made a movie of the experience by now. :)
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I did a static line jump at this place http://sat.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/loopsat.php?wfo=&area=nw&type=wv&size=2 (http://sat.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/loopsat.php?wfo=&area=nw&type=wv&size=2) a couple of weeks before it was shut down. My wife had bought a first jump coupon at a charity auction as a present for my birthday, if I had had life insurance I might have wondered. Is it just me or does aviation seem to have a tiny bit more of its fare share of shady operators? (counterfeit parts, charter operations that don't follow rules, pencil whipped package bombers etc. etc.)
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(http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa409/Christopher_Morris/skydive_zps26e479c5.jpg)
Not a great shot, it is tough to see the look of panic on my face and the big vein bulging out on my forehead, but I have a record of it and you can see them on the original (this is a scan of that).
Any line twists on opening? :neener:
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Any line twists on opening? :neener:
Nope, but as you can see from the picture I completely ignored all the training and simply launched myself out the door. As a result I started to rotate forwards in a roll. I remember thinking "OH MY GOD, YOU'VE REALLY MADE A MISTAKE DOING THIS" and the next thing I knew the chute yanked me upright.
When I landed I twisted my ankle really badly and to this day it "clicks" when I walk....I tell people it is an old skydiving injury. Technically it is not a lie. :D
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Mine was a tandem jump from a nice big twin engine King Air. All I had to do was slide my butt down this narrow bench to the open door and stand at the edge waiting for the boss to push me out.
The noise and wind as I stood there, maybe two whole seconds, gave me a good scare. Then we were out there and - gulp! - I just froze from the shock for a second, not even breathing. We were pretty high, almost 14,000 and the free fall was close to a minute. My ears were hurting after that, cause the wind is loud as hell.
Then after the chute was pulled, I was allowed to steer. "Pull this down to your waist" - Holy crap, those things turn on a dime! Great fun and would recommend it to anyone with a strong heart. :)
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That vid of the old lady coming mostly out of her harness on her first jump, and all the flat places in the grass at small airfields are all the skydiving I need these days, though I confess there was a time I considered it.
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Somehow I posted the wrong link http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19950213&slug=2104806 (http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19950213&slug=2104806)
And http://projects.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/24367930-41/mayfield-faa-1994-eugene-license.csp (http://projects.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/24367930-41/mayfield-faa-1994-eugene-license.csp)
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Somehow I posted the wrong link http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19950213&slug=2104806 (http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19950213&slug=2104806)
And http://projects.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/24367930-41/mayfield-faa-1994-eugene-license.csp (http://projects.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/24367930-41/mayfield-faa-1994-eugene-license.csp)
Bwahahahaha! Teddy!!
What a character. I bought an airplane that had been "built" by him. Boy, did that take some work (spelled M O N E Y) to get the paperwork straightened out.
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Wow your a crazy dude!!!! :rofl
Actually I'm glad you enjoyed it. My brother still says it was the funnest thing he ever did.