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Offline caldera

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Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« on: September 28, 2013, 02:42:38 PM »
Made my first skydive today!  :x   Words cannot express the thrill.  Holy S...!  :O
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Offline gyrene81

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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2013, 05:59:38 PM »
nice  :aok ...and no thanks.  :uhoh
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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2013, 06:50:03 PM »
Quote from: caldera on September 28, 2013, 02:42:38 PM
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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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2013, 07:29:00 PM »
good job!!!! But remember....no such thing as a good airplane!

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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2013, 07:32:46 PM »
Welcome to the brotherhood. :aok
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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2013, 09:41:03 PM »
Only reasonably airworthy.
Just like reasonably seaworthy.
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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2013, 10:40:16 PM »
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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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2013, 12:45:33 AM »
And I'm scared of roller-coasters  :confused:
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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2013, 02:15:43 AM »
pics or it didn't happen.












jk awesome, awesome to the max :aok
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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2013, 07:00:14 AM »
VIDEO or it never happened!
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Offline caldera

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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2013, 07:19:47 AM »
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. 

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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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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2013, 12:14:22 PM »
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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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2013, 03:41:40 PM »
Quote from: pipz on September 29, 2013, 12:14:22 PM

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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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2013, 04:53:18 PM »
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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Re: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
« Reply #14 on: September 30, 2013, 07:38:10 AM »
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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