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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: mechanic on September 05, 2014, 03:30:55 PM
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Video of my first time ever jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft.
These is no point adding any kind of description right now. Those who know, know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgKAd1ZJngI&feature=youtu.be
Just incredible.
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Good stuff Bat. I did that once some years ago. Would have kept going around had it not been so expensive. :cheers:
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Good job. Good body position, just needed a bit more leg which you corrected when signaled to.
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:banana: :rock :salute :cheers:
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:aok
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That's awesome bro! :rock
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Nice brother :)
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Nice....
I have found no better way to remove stink from shoes than this...
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Nice! Did my first one two weeks ago at the drop zone I fly for.
Thinking about doing the static line course and get my A license.
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:aok
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Kinda fun, isn't it? ;) Made my first jump was last year. :banana:
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WTG!! :aok
Did 200+ jumps between 2005 and 2007, fun it sure is :)
Nice and stable as demonstrated by your second AFF-I letting you go mid-jump. Congrats again and enjoy the adrenaline tsunami... :rock
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Youtube seems to be down for me right now but congrats anyway. Just don't get too hooked on skydiving or you'll end up living on a dropzone in a battered old RV. :neener: On the other hand some skydivers travel the world and jump out of interesting planes in interesting places.
My only solo jump was many years ago on a ex military round rig from a mere 2500 feet. Although I've done two tandems since then from the plane I usually fly for the dropzone. If I was younger I might try and get a licence but right now I'm quite satisfied to just stick with the flying.
Have fun!
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I'm getting a bit better at this, skydiving is my new addiction
(http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p620/monkeyfarmer/tracking_zpsfdbe65d8.png)
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:aok
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awesome sauce
looks like your a natural ..
better than pony rustling?
sure looks more fun...where is that ?
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WTG nutnut
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RAF Hilbaldstow up near Scunthorpe, used to be a Lancaster base in the war. (stupid text filter)
It is amazing fun. I'm going to become an instructor.
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This was taken many many moons ago when my roomate in collage decided to try and cure my fear of heights. It was a suprise for my birthday.
Interestingly enough when we arrived at the School (Toronto Parachute School) there were cops everywhere and when we got out of the car a helicopter landed nearby and 4 plain clothes cops got out. In our opening lecture the instruction began by saying "Ladies and Gentlemen. I have to be open and honest with you. You may have noticed all the police and activity going on. The reason is that yesterday we had our first fatality at the School."
I looked at my roomate with my jaw hanging around my chest and he just shrugged and said "What are the odds that it happen two days in a row?"
Later that day:
(http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa409/Christopher_Morris/skydive_zps98910461.jpg)
Old school parachuting. :)
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Badass! I see that the student jumpsuits and helmets have not changed much in that many moons.
what's that? 2.5k?
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Badass! I see that the student jumpsuits and helmets have not changed much in that many moons.
what's that? 2.5k?
4.5 but it felt like a million. :)
My right ankle still clicks whenever I walk because I landed HARD on that side for some reason. I have told people (women in particular) that it happens due to a "skydiving" injury. lol ;)
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Great photo, that's must have been many years ago. My first and so far only solo jump was in a rig like that. Complete with reserve strapped to the chest. Bet it was a big round chute too. Back then if the main failed you had to have the presence of mind to cut away the main then pull the handle on the reserve. I'd probably have died.
Is that a 182 or a 206? That step looks small. I used to fly a 182 and the students had to climb out on the step grab the strut and then let go. One day a student wouldn't let go. The jumpmaster reached out and one by one prised his fingers off the strut. You should have seen the look on the poor guy's face!
Things have moved on now. Square and steerable chutes, automatic reserve deployment on a cutaway AADs :Automatic activation devices, radios and lightweight helmets. Doesn't stop a student doing something stupid. One of ours landed on the hangar, another took out the windsock on the airfield, yet another found the tallest tree in the country and perched there. Great fun.
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We are taught to cut away and pull reserve still. The AAD and RSL are meant to be considered as back-up only. The instructors all say that if you rely on them you are going to auger sooner or later. I have a friend who was jumping in Russia about 10 years ago and had a mal, only managed to deploy his round chute reserve at 300. Floating down out of control right over an ore smelting plant with the smoke rising beneath him. He said he was calm and ok till he landed, then he cried like a baby.
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Bet it was a big round chute too. Back then if the main failed you had to have the presence of mind to cut away the main then pull the handle on the reserve. I'd probably have died.
It was and I would have died if the chute didn't open...for sure.
No idea what the model of the plane was....I was sort of in a dream-like trance through most of the actual ride up and jump. The only thing I remember well was volunteering to jump out first, because I knew that if someone chicken out in front of me I probably would have too. My roomate was sort of shocked at that. His best memory was seeing me jump and watching to see if the chute opened. Given that he had paid and taken me there for my birthday he was not keen on facing my father if something went wrong.
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I had a similar experience Curval. But I actually wrote it all down while the memory was vivid. I went second and refusing never entered my mind because all of us on that load guys from my army reserve unit. Dying was preferable to not jumping. The fear on the first guy's face distracted me so much that I forgot to be nervous plus trying to remember the drills kept me busy until I jumped. Then it go scary until the parachute opened. :O
Interestingly the first guy out went on to join the Irish army ranger wing, who are our special forces. The third guy out went on to join the British Para regiment and became a company commander. I ended up as a skydive pilot. I guess we all got hooked one way or other.
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so any desire to do some freefall?
The chute ride is fun but nothing compares to the minute of freefall, front loops, back loops, looking at the sunset over the clouds, a bit of tracking. Check Alt. 6k. Still got time, the manic laugh audible over the wind, then 5k, 4.5k throw pilot....ahhh....still alive.
Free fall is so hard to describe that is what makes me want to jump and jump again, the only way to truly remember that feeling is to jump again.
(http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p620/monkeyfarmer/skydiveH3_zpsca64bb3c.png)
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Ahh...no.
I don't even like rollercoasters man.
My life insurance company wouldn't be too keen on it either. :)
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The chute ride is fun but nothing compares to the minute of freefall
The early one's were the most memorable in many ways. I did static line progression so it started with 5 second, then 10 sec, then 15 sec free fall. I really noticed the sound of the wind increasing as I accelerated on the 10 and 15 second jumps since I was finally getting to terminal velocity.
Awesome going out of a DC-3 late in the exit, the base very small waaaaay below you as you dive vertically to catch up….wind roaring, goggles bouncing, eyes watering….the base starting to mushroom larger as you flare hard to slow down and slide into your slot.
My at that time future wife working on her tandem rating, jumping out of the 182 that I eventually owned. I did the camera for this jump.
(http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/sdpics/sd1.jpg)
The wife and I on one of our early dates:
(http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/sdpics/kisspass.jpg)
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Ahh man, that is one of the best photos I have ever seen. And wow, that is low. How low was that awesome kiss?
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Ahh man, that is one of the best photos I have ever seen. And wow, that is low. How low was that awesome kiss?
We're 3500-4500'. That was at Girdwood, Alaska…pretty little drop zone in a valley right next to Alyeska Ski Resort. It was awe inspiring to break from a relative work dive at 3500' then turn and track toward a 4500' mountain. :)
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I'm another of the did it once to see what it was like folks. This was back in 1979. I made promises about the good man I would try and be all the way down! It seemed a real foolish thing to do after I left the plane :)
I'd rather fly em then fall out of them :aok
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Just out of curiosity I looked up the weight restrictions for a tandem jump.
I had to laugh... I was exceeding them even back when I still was a thin guy (I really was :old:)
So I can declare without any danger: I so totally would do that kind of stuff, no problem.... but sadly I'm just not allowed to :old:
I'm using a similar excuse for not riding roller coasters as well. "Me? Afraid of that lil ride? Oh darling, I would so totally LOVE to do that... but you see that 'people taller than 190cm not allowed' sign?"
:devil
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Had to come home and earn some money, the frustrating part being that I need ONE more jump to get my A licence. Not a good time of year weather wise. Incredible experiences though.
Did my level 8 test jump yesterday, freefall from 5k to see if I could get stable and deploy within 1,000ft. That was a new rush, tingling adrenalin when I landed. All senses so highly tuned that I could hear blades of grass rubbing against each other in the breeze, could see the tiny speck of a bird soaring on the far horizon. Everything looked and sounded so beautiful and being alive was such a gift.
The next jump I was freefalling through cloud from 6.5k, completely blind. Getting closer and closer to the ground but seeing nothing. About 4.5k I was starting to think I should deploy in the cloud and then suddenly the mist parted and the ground came into focus and was rushing at me alarmingly quickly. Tried to throw my pilot but the first attempt didn't get it free of the container, a moment of intense adrenalin, then reset and throw again. Then again the manic laughter as the chute started to decelerate me.
I'm so addicted to this it is scary. And still such a noob. Just a relatively meaningless 18 jumps in to a lifetime of learning to come.
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lol....I would not call you a noob after 18 jumps.
Great you are having so much enjoyment though, just PLEASE be careful and don't try and push the envelope too fast or far.
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Woot! Got my noob licence. Did 7 jumps on Sunday. Up to 25 now.
There is nothing else I have experienced that compares to this dangerous game.
(http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p620/monkeyfarmer/FS1B_zps8391007a.png)
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That's good progression, seven in a day is good going for a noob because despite what curval said even 25 means you're still a noob as I'm sure your Instructors have emphasised. I remember a new guy with maybe a hundred jumps having a malfunction during a hop and pop and getting his reserve out way too low! He realised how little he knew at that point and we all got free beer that night!
Have fun and get some videos up on youtube.
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I have some time in a Twin Otter from a few years ago flying skydivers. I'm all set in doing it myself! It's hilarious when the door opens and the first-timers start screaming, and beating some of the jumpers down from 14k with the airplane makes for a fun ride.
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beating some of the jumpers down from 14k with the airplane makes for a fun ride.
It's a bit distracting when you're a late diver on exit, you're in a good no-lift dive smoking toward the base and hear the growl of the Porter going by!!
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It's a bit distracting when you're a late diver on exit, you're in a good no-lift dive smoking toward the base and hear the growl of the Porter going by!!
:cheers:
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100th jump today, it was a total shambles of hilarity :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slmXPUTO9tI&feature=youtu.be
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100th jump today, it was a total shambles of hilarity :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slmXPUTO9tI&feature=youtu.be
:banana: :D
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100th jump today, it was a total shambles of hilarity :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slmXPUTO9tI&feature=youtu.be
Dayum, you totally went 100% addiction with the sport! Good on ya!
I did 11 jumps in 3 weeks and none since! :( I lost my skydiving partner to a marriage. :uhoh
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Woot! Got my noob licence. Did 7 jumps on Sunday. Up to 25 now.
There is nothing else I have experienced that compares to this dangerous game.
(http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p620/monkeyfarmer/FS1B_zps8391007a.png)
This is such and awesome photo, should have it blown up and framed.
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yup totally addicted!
I do love that photo man, you're right
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:aok
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Congrats and at this rate of accumulating jumps, don't expect any banker to ever smile at you again ;) :banana:
For my 100th, my buddies and I had dirt-dived (for whuffos, it's a rehearsal of the jump while on the ground) a somewhat "complex" hybrid (belly-flying and freeflying) formation.
Arrived at altitude, I just flipped them the bird at the green light and let myself fall through the rear cargo door (a Skyvan was visiting our DZ that day), ruining the plan. :D
The look on their faces almost covered the "inconvenience" of being dragged out of the packing hangar afterwards by those revengeful a-holes so they could dump a bucket full of disgusting things on my head (I never wanted to know what it was exactly) :uhoh
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haha! A hybrid was suggested by the guy in the red suit as it happens so I told him if he could catch me in time and smash the banana in my face we could then try it, he never caught me. Gorrilla suits have a wide range of fall speeds available :D
I was always planning to do the custom of a naked 100th, however with a ground temperature of -3 it seemed a bit foolhardy to jump naked with a wind chill of up to -30 out of the plane. So basically I wussed out.