I'm going skydiving for the first time next week

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Hobbesarable said:
Yeah, it was great. You should try static line jumping. I thought that was a bit more freaky as I had to climb out of the plane to the wing and wait for the go ahead to let go and fall backwards.
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I had to climb out on the wing too. A jump guide was in the door and told you when to go. Then he jumped right after I did and caught up to me. (then the video guy jumped and caught up to both of us, lol) Your falling in your arch and the jump guide motions for you do to a practice touch on your rip cord. The you get back into your free falling arch position and check the altimeter on your wrist. Then you pull your rip cord.
 
Fucking weather...rescheduled, going in 2 weeks.
 
Fucking shit men, I lived(thankfully)!

My instructor let me pull the directional ropes all by myself except for when he helped pull it down far enough that we started corkscrewing. He also took over in order to land us.

I made sure not to think about what I was doing and instead just went for it. After we jumped out I was in shock at how much was going on. My instructor said free fall is about 50 seconds, it felt like 5.

I made sure to yell "rip city"!

I would definitely go again, but I'm not going to wake up mornings needing to go skydiving.
 
Fonzthecpt1 said:
Fucking shit men, I lived(thankfully)!

My instructor let me pull the directional ropes all by myself except for when he helped pull it down far enough that we started corkscrewing. He also took over in order to land us.

I made sure not to think about what I was doing and instead just went for it. After we jumped out I was in shock at how much was going on. My instructor said free fall is about 50 seconds, it felt like 5.

I made sure to yell "rip city"!

I would definitely go again, but I'm not going to wake up mornings needing to go skydiving.
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Glad you had fun!

Waking up needing to skydive only hits you after a few weeks, wait for it...

barfo
 
Fonzthecpt1 said:
Fucking shit men, I lived(thankfully)!

My instructor let me pull the directional ropes all by myself except for when he helped pull it down far enough that we started corkscrewing. He also took over in order to land us.

I made sure not to think about what I was doing and instead just went for it. After we jumped out I was in shock at how much was going on. My instructor said free fall is about 50 seconds, it felt like 5.

I made sure to yell "rip city"!

I would definitely go again, but I'm not going to wake up mornings needing to go skydiving.
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Now you can take the lessons to do it all by yourself.
 
Fonzthecpt1 said:
I'd want to tandem at least one more time. Something about me being solely responsible kind of freaks me out lol.
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LOL! At least you had fun! No wind? Clear skies? That plane is loud as fuck when you're up there.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
LOL! At least you had fun! No wind? Clear skies? That plane is loud as fuck when you're up there.
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I was 2nd to go and didn't have much if any bench to sit on since we were on the edge. With the plane climbing and not having a seat, it was a decent leg workout.

Some one after me got part of their harness stuck on the plane and i guess they were just hanging out of it. Glad I was out of the plane before then or it might have psyched me out.

We got there at 3 for our check in, and didn't jump until around 7:15, which was within the 4-5 hour window they give everybody. I would have loved for the wait to have been half that time. But thankfully that gave time for the sky to clear up. It wasn't tremendously windy which was nice. I'm sure it was close to perfect conditions.

The plane is really loud, especially when the door is open. They opened the door until 5000 feet, I believe to keep the plane from getting too stuffy.

The view is astounding! St. Helens, mt hood, the cascades. As a kid I wanted to grow up and move to LA...As an adult I can't leave this beautiful state behind!

They were running 2 planes, the instructor for the training session(ended up being my tandem partner) said they are million dollar planes. I don't know enough about planes to know if he was inflating that number or not.
 
Fonzthecpt1 said:
They were running 2 planes, the instructor for the training session(ended up being my tandem partner) said they are million dollar planes. I don't know enough about planes to know if he was inflating that number or not.
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The answer is yes.

barfo
 
barfo said:
The answer is yes.

barfo
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He was inflating the number? That's what my instincts were. Can't fault the guy though, he was awesome. Did a great job of making it an amazing experience. He told me he also works for the Portland police department. I only spent a handful of minutes with him, but sometimes that's all it takes to gain respect.

He was basically the slypokerdog of skydiving.
 
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Fonzthecpt1 said:
He was inflating the number? That's what my instincts were. Can't fault the guy though, he was awesome. Did a great job of making it an amazing experience. He told me he also works for the Portland police department. I only spent a handful of minutes with him, but sometimes that's all it takes to gain respect.

He was basically the slypokerdog of skydiving.
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He couldn't have been a Portland cop, he would have shot/beat/tasered/sexually assaulted you on the way down...
 
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The hardest part for me was jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.
 
maxiep said:
The hardest part for me was jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.
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It was easier for me, the plane I jumped out of was a rusty old heap. I think the wings were attached with baling wire and duct tape.

It reminded me of my old Camaro, lol...
 
maxiep said:
The hardest part for me was jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.
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The last time I left a perfectly good airplane it was more like being dumped out. Open the canopy on the Skyraider in a slow near stall climb, the pilot inverts the aircraft just before stall and goes into an inverted shallow dive. I just fall out like coming out of the back of dump truck sitting on a stool.
 
barfo said:
The answer is yes.

barfo
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I dunno, that might be right. Not knowing anything about the aircraft, it's impossible to say for sure, but even a small Cessna can go well over 300k used
 
TehChad said:
I dunno, that might be right. Not knowing anything about the aircraft, it's impossible to say for sure, but even a small Cessna can go well over 300k used
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Yeah, I was probably a little hasty there. I have no knowledge of what planes Molalla has. Historically, skydive planes have not been 'perfectly good airplanes'. But times may have changed.

barfo
 
Yeah aircraft are surprisingly expensive. I know an instructor over at Hillsboro Aviation who owns a Cessna 150 (two seat tiny aircraft) built in the 60s with a lot of hours, and he mentioned that even that old, worn out thing went for 50k...yikes!
 
barfo said:
Yeah, I was probably a little hasty there. I have no knowledge of what planes Molalla has. Historically, skydive planes have not been 'perfectly good airplanes'. But times may have changed.

barfo
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Based on looks alone id say these were very nice planes. They were in beautiful condition as well.

Maybe I should find out what planes they use.
 
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