Oh, I bet you did plenty of that...After flying finished went down there for a few cool beverages, and ogle the womens.
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Uh, no, I am not.
What a wimp!
mscard88
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Oh, I bet you did plenty of that...
They were a crazy bunch of rednecks lol. The jump pilot lived there in a trailer with his woman, and he definitely was crazy. Good guy though.
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JCranford
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All skydiving chicks are hot! Even the not hot ones are hot, cuz they skydive!
I did camera for a while too. Loved doing that. Sometimes you gotta fly your a$$ off!
FormerHangie
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Looking good out there, you had a decent arch. You must not have been that nervous. Glad to hear you enjoyed it.
No, I am, two weeks from today.
Timbeck2
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Good friend of mine and a controller in PHX (Dean Rusicka pronounced Roo zich kah) is one of the camera bros if he still dives there. Glad you made it back to the ground. I doubt I'd ever do anything like that.
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Ahh shucks Tim was gonna see if you wanted to fly to the ole Bent Prop Saloon next weekend and jump outta some planes
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I loved jumping and loved doing the big way formations right up until I discovered the politics and favoritism that one had to deal with to get on the "special" jumps. have life long friends and wonderful memories. Many of our friends have hung up their wings for other passions over the years, but we all still remain good friends.
flhrci
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The social aspect of skydiving never happened for me in 105ish jumps and 3 different DZ's. I gave up on it. I felt like I was imposing when I asked to join relative work groups. I don't drink or get rowdy so I guess I did not fit in. I loved it and I even went back 6 weeks later after getting hurt. Oh well. Still have my rig but I weigh too much now.
Even did a summer of piloting recently but they did not ask me to come back the next season and went out of business anyway.
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@JCranford or @Mrs. J Cranford ....
Is there any medical certificate requirement to obtain your jump license?
Is there any medical certificate requirement to obtain your jump license?
JCranford
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Tandem Instructors require a Class 3, otherwise no.
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And that is just a USPA requirement not a FAA one.
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Well, we did it. Arrived at the drop zone at 7:30 to low ceilings, which is not unusual for this part of the world at this time of the year. We filled out the most elaborate waiver in the history of the world, and watched a video, then waited. Around 10 AM, the overcast started breaking and the staff announced that our jump would be in 30 minutes. Our instructors come by, introduce themselves, and start gearing us up, and giving us the gouge on what to expect and what to do. There is a runway at the drop zone, but if the airplane is anywhere close to full, they bus us over to Cornelius Moore Field (4A4) and take off from there. I'd been expecting a Twin Otter, but today they were using a Caravan. We pile out of the bus, our instructors escort to the door, and we climb in. Inside, there are two long narrow carpeted boxes running front to back, that we straddle facing backwards. For us tandem students, that makes a lot of sense, it's easier to get connected to your instructor that way.
The door closes, we head out to the runway, and off we go. It's just a little bit bumpy, and I start questioning what I'm doing there. I can tend towards motion sickness, and the bus ride over had triggered it a little. The air smooths out, and they open the jump door to cool us off, I feel better. The cloud deck gets a little thicker, they close the door, I start questioning my motivation again. We get to altitude, and I very carefully watch my daughter's instructor make all the connections between her harness and his. My instructor finishes connecting my harness to his rig, and I must confess I've never been so glad to be tightly connected to another guy in my entire life.
We get to 14K AGL, and the door opens again. First out the door is a couple with a videographer, who I assume are doing some relative work. It's my daughter's turn next. She goes to the door with no hesitation and out they go.Next goes two more solo jumpers, and then it's my turn. I scooch down the carpeted box and we finagle our way to the door. I have to stay crouched down, and get to the door with the balls of my feet on the edge of the doorframe. I'm trying to stay neutral with my head up and am waiting for my instructor to take us out the door, which he does just a couple of seconds after we get into position. We're out! The step outside of the airplane is a little disorienting, and the acceleration send my stomach into my throat for a couple of seconds, but he gets up stabilized quickly and gives me the signal to get my hands into the arched position.
Now I'm plummeting earthward at 100+ MPH and I feel great. I was anticipating that the wind would beat me up, but I have no sensation of that. It almost is peaceful, with a great view of the sky. I check the altimeter on my left wrist every few seconds, and just as I was told, it unwinds pretty quickly. 12,000, 10,000, 9,000.. all too soon we get to 7,000 AGL. My instructor holds my left wrist in front of me, I reach back with my right hand and find the main 'chute release, which looks and feels much like a golf ball. The altimeter needle gets to 6,000, and I give it a pull. Nothing happens, so I give it a stronger pull. I can feel the release pins pop out and hear the main 'chute starting to open, which it does surprisingly softly. We're under canopy, the view's great, the air's cool, and the harness is comfortable. My instructor gives me a set of toggles, and some instructions. I can see my daughter and her instructor quite a bit below us, approaching the broken cloud deck. Since I tend towards motion sickness, we don't do anything too extreme on the way down. He maneuvers us around the cloud deck to where we go through the very edge of one of them. Mmm, tasty cloud. We come in for a nice slider landing.
I didn't get a photo package so you're going to have to settle for a picture out of my daughter's.
How does it compare to hang gliding? It's entirely different. Skydiving is a little on the bipolar side, first you climb into an airplane, then you jump out into a 120 MPH slipstream, then you have a canopy ride, and then you land. Hang gliding, you do a launch, then you fly around looking for lift, and then you set up an approach and land. Which one do I prefer? If I had the time to hang glide, I still would be doing that. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to take up skydiving.
Would I do it again? They have a deal there that on the day you make your first jump, you can buy a second tandem for $99, and I took them up on the offer. I don't have plans to use it, but that gives me an idea...
The door closes, we head out to the runway, and off we go. It's just a little bit bumpy, and I start questioning what I'm doing there. I can tend towards motion sickness, and the bus ride over had triggered it a little. The air smooths out, and they open the jump door to cool us off, I feel better. The cloud deck gets a little thicker, they close the door, I start questioning my motivation again. We get to altitude, and I very carefully watch my daughter's instructor make all the connections between her harness and his. My instructor finishes connecting my harness to his rig, and I must confess I've never been so glad to be tightly connected to another guy in my entire life.
We get to 14K AGL, and the door opens again. First out the door is a couple with a videographer, who I assume are doing some relative work. It's my daughter's turn next. She goes to the door with no hesitation and out they go.Next goes two more solo jumpers, and then it's my turn. I scooch down the carpeted box and we finagle our way to the door. I have to stay crouched down, and get to the door with the balls of my feet on the edge of the doorframe. I'm trying to stay neutral with my head up and am waiting for my instructor to take us out the door, which he does just a couple of seconds after we get into position. We're out! The step outside of the airplane is a little disorienting, and the acceleration send my stomach into my throat for a couple of seconds, but he gets up stabilized quickly and gives me the signal to get my hands into the arched position.
Now I'm plummeting earthward at 100+ MPH and I feel great. I was anticipating that the wind would beat me up, but I have no sensation of that. It almost is peaceful, with a great view of the sky. I check the altimeter on my left wrist every few seconds, and just as I was told, it unwinds pretty quickly. 12,000, 10,000, 9,000.. all too soon we get to 7,000 AGL. My instructor holds my left wrist in front of me, I reach back with my right hand and find the main 'chute release, which looks and feels much like a golf ball. The altimeter needle gets to 6,000, and I give it a pull. Nothing happens, so I give it a stronger pull. I can feel the release pins pop out and hear the main 'chute starting to open, which it does surprisingly softly. We're under canopy, the view's great, the air's cool, and the harness is comfortable. My instructor gives me a set of toggles, and some instructions. I can see my daughter and her instructor quite a bit below us, approaching the broken cloud deck. Since I tend towards motion sickness, we don't do anything too extreme on the way down. He maneuvers us around the cloud deck to where we go through the very edge of one of them. Mmm, tasty cloud. We come in for a nice slider landing.
I didn't get a photo package so you're going to have to settle for a picture out of my daughter's.
How does it compare to hang gliding? It's entirely different. Skydiving is a little on the bipolar side, first you climb into an airplane, then you jump out into a 120 MPH slipstream, then you have a canopy ride, and then you land. Hang gliding, you do a launch, then you fly around looking for lift, and then you set up an approach and land. Which one do I prefer? If I had the time to hang glide, I still would be doing that. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to take up skydiving.
Would I do it again? They have a deal there that on the day you make your first jump, you can buy a second tandem for $99, and I took them up on the offer. I don't have plans to use it, but that gives me an idea...
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Your daughter looks like she enjoyed it. Is she planning on moving forward with it?
FormerHangie
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She says she's thinking of doing another jump, but I think if she does, she'll be going with other teens, possibly at college. Right now with high school graduation and college starting this fall, she's not going to have time to add skydiving to her schedule.
FormerHangie
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I'm hanging out at Skydive Spaceland, just finally finished that second jump I bought last year.. Since I passed the first jump's tasks, today's flight plan was a little more complex. Get out the door, get in a stable arch, make a 360 degree turn to the left, check altitude, 360 to the right, check altitude, do five seconds of tracking, then at 6000 feet, wave off and deploy. That seemed kind of intimidating, but after having gone through it five or six times on the way up, I managed to pull it all off, so now I'm qualified to go for a flight with my own parachute and one instructor.
I don't think I'm going to continue, it's fun, but it's pretty intense, and I'm not sure I'm reacting to things quickly enough to handle an emergency. That plus it's very time consuming.
I don't think I'm going to continue, it's fun, but it's pretty intense, and I'm not sure I'm reacting to things quickly enough to handle an emergency. That plus it's very time consuming.
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flhrci
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Congrats! Didn't know you were going to go again. Stuff like that becomes easier the more you jump just like flying as the task loading gets easier to handle.
biplanebob
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I did my first skydive in the early 1980's as I was flying acro in a biplane at that time. I was just going to do one jump.….that lead to 23 more. Now in 2019, I recently tried para-sailing, I am ready to go for my next para-sail ride.
FormerHangie
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I had bought that second jump, and had spent the last year trying to find someone else who wanted to go. Finally I gave up on that and just went by myself. I have to say I really enjoyed it and at this point I'm trying to convince myself that I don't need to go back, but I'm starting to lose that argument with myself. No matter, really, I have all winter to think about it, I'm wouldn't be doing anything about it until next spring.
The first tandem I did, I was quite nervous. This time, I was only nervous until I got to the DZ. I felt great about it the entire time I was in the air. I can see where this could get addictive.
A few year ago, we were on a family vacation, and my eldest daughter wanted to go parasailing. She was finally able to convince her sister to go with, and that is what put the skydive into her head, I think.