North95 0 #1 February 16, 2004 Wish me luck and send me some good vibes. I'm starting AFF again. I did my AFF1 (after 4 tandems, first two just for fun) at the end of September, last year. I really messed up my landing and fractured my sternum and a few vertebrae. I walked away anyway. I live in NY where it will be cold/snowy/rainy/windy for some time. I decided to go to Desert Skydiving Center in Buckeye AZ. I just made my plane, hotel and car reservations. Of course, I called DSC also. I'll be there from March 22 for a couple of weeks, hopefully enough time to finish AFF and get 25 for an A. I hope they know how to calm me down a little bit before my first landing, I'm pretty paranoid about it. The rest of the first solo I'm confident about. I suppose I'll have to do ground school again, and maybe they'll have me do a tandem again. Since I've been grounded, and was out of work for three months, I've been studying three videos I bought. From Skydive U and somewhere else I bought Basic Body Flight, Cutaway and Basic Canopy Flight. I know you can't learn driving, ice skating, or skydiving from a book, but its the best I can do now. There had better be a lot of beer buying in my future. NorthRepetition does not transform a lie into a truth. Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymama 37 #2 February 16, 2004 Welcome to the forums! She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyyhi 0 #3 February 16, 2004 Kudos on starting over. . .that has to be tough. . . Good luck to you on your new adventure and be sure to come here ant tell us about it. . .________________________________________ Take risks not to escape life… but to prevent life from escaping. ~ A bumper sticker at the DZ FGF #6 Darcy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
North95 0 #4 February 16, 2004 Quote It takes a lot of courage to start over once you've been hurt. Thanks Skymama and Skyyhi. It seems that the intense desire is greater than the fear. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SlyFox 0 #5 February 16, 2004 Good luck. Relax and most important Have Fun *****Why would anyone jump from a perfectly good airplane? Because it isn't much fun if it's broke.**** Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Raefordite 0 #6 February 16, 2004 http://www.uspa.org/publications/SIM/2004SIM/SIM.htm I don't get it. I read again and again of people trying to learn or get back into the sport. I think that is fantastic. Yet why do so few think about our very own United States Parachute Association as a resource? The videos, etc. you bought and studied are great resources. And I'm not saying USPA is perfect. But please tell me you considered reading Section 4 of the SIMS. Good luck! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LuvToFly 0 #7 February 16, 2004 Hey best of luck to you with that.. I had a buddy break a leg 'bout a week ago in Eloy while getting through his L3 AFF. Did great on freefall, stability, no instuctors holding on, good canopy control - but flared very high and let 'em go - He just had surgery on Friday and got 8 screws and a plate. But he is already talking about going back. It's like we are all crazy - but in a good way, of course! On the fear part, however, enough fear to make you pay attention is very good. But too much will blow your concentration. Know your procedures blindfolded, forward and backward. Knowledge and ground training can help you rehearse a jump. And then, couple in emergency procedures while you are rehearsing. Practice a cut-away but also become an expert PLF'er. That would have probably saved him from havin' to go through that pain - Once all of this is comitted to memory, it can become instinctive. And while some of this requires practice in the real sense of the word, there is an awful lot you can do on the ground to be prepared, and that knowledge is many times what most puts the fears you speak of in check. Commit to be extremely good at this sport and notg just be able to do it, or get through your training. Ask, learn, read, watch experienced people, particularly on landing. "The helicopter approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of a magic carpet" - Igor Sikorsky Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
North95 0 #8 February 16, 2004 Quote But please tell me you considered reading Section 4 of the SIMS. Absolutely. It's in my training/education bookmark folder. If nothing else, I'm a good book student. I'll have thal all virtually memorized before I'm on my AA flight to Phoenix. North Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billymotox 0 #9 February 17, 2004 Welcome! Good luck with AFF. billy d------------------------- "Escape may be checked by water and land, but the air and the sky are free." (from the story of Daedalus and Icarus) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Raefordite 0 #10 February 18, 2004 QuoteBut please tell me you considered reading Section 4 of the SIMS. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Absolutely. It's in my training/education bookmark folder. If nothing else, I'm a good book student. I'll have thal all virtually memorized before I'm on my AA flight to Phoenix. Cool. Good luck and keep us posted. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chute 0 #11 February 20, 2004 Remember. If it looks like your gonna hit hard. Get ready to ROLL! Trying to make more out of a landing then it really will be will put you right back where you just came from. On the couch waiting to start over again. We all here ay DZ.com have faith. You can do it.Bottomless Beers and Blue Skies! * Brother_Brian * D.S.W.F.S.B. #2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
