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Offline VonMessa

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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #15 on: September 30, 2013, 07:43:11 AM »
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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #16 on: September 30, 2013, 07:51:23 AM »
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:



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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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #17 on: September 30, 2013, 01:15:01 PM »
I did a static line jump at this place 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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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #18 on: September 30, 2013, 02:10:57 PM »
Quote from: Curval on September 30, 2013, 07:51:23 AM
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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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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #19 on: September 30, 2013, 02:49:18 PM »
Quote from: colmbo on September 30, 2013, 02:10:57 PM
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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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #20 on: September 30, 2013, 04:54:25 PM »
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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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #21 on: October 01, 2013, 03:28:42 AM »
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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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #23 on: October 01, 2013, 11:53:59 AM »
Quote from: pembquist on October 01, 2013, 11:09:55 AM
Somehow I posted the wrong link 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



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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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #24 on: October 01, 2013, 07:43:38 PM »
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.
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