Most Memorable Landing Stories

[livendive 8]

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If you dont pull out a 4-way from 4200 and turn at least 4 pts with a clean break off, your wasting you time.

A good low cloud day is so much fun. Taking the CReW/base canopy out and leaving an airplane from under 2G, gives life a different perspective. mmmmm.

I think it might be a Cessna jumper kind of thing. It seems we just love anything we can get.

We're easy.

As a fellow Cessna jumper, I completely understand. I was just trying to knock the weather at Snohomish.

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

[Zipp0 1]

My first landing.... about 5 hours ago.
Butt slide into the peas.

And I'm hoping to avoid many of the landings I just read about here. It seems the better a story is, the more you should avoid it happening to you.

Zipp0

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Chuck Norris doesn't do push-ups, he pushes the Earth down.

[D22369 0]

If you dont pull out a 4-way from 4200 and turn at least 4 pts with a clean break off, your wasting you time.

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erm...... 4200' and only 4 pts?

heheh... i was on a dive with Dave (livendive) where we turned a four way - 3 pts from 2400.....

everyone had a good canopy by 1800'

-----------------------------------------------------Obviously this was long before I became a safety nazi. I now roundly condemn such reckless behavior!

Blues,
Dave
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P>>>>P>>>>P>>>>PU---SSY

ya gotta grow old... but ya dont gotta grow up.... whats the worst that could happen?

*should I mention that we (the staff) were all at the competing dz while our plane was down with a screwed up propeller?

and we all almost got fired?....LOL

Bob understood....Larry wuz pissed!!!



Roy

They say I suffer from insanity.... But I actually enjoy it.

[livendive 8]

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P>>>>P>>>>P>>>>PU---SSY

ya gotta grow old... but ya dont gotta grow up.... whats the worst that could happen?

How the hell could *you* miss the dripping sarcasm?

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*should I mention that we (the staff) were all at the competing dz while our plane was down with a screwed up propeller?

and we all almost got fired?....LOL

Bob understood....Larry wuz pissed!!!

At least if we bounced, we'd have done it elsewhere!

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

[bob.dino 1]

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i was on a dive with Dave (livendive) where we turned a four way - 3 pts from 2400.....

Do you remember the points? Bet you didn't do block 22 .

[JENNR8R 0]

My first landing.... about 5 hours ago.
Butt slide into the peas.

And I'm hoping to avoid many of the landings I just read about here. It seems the better a story is, the more you should avoid it happening to you.

[McDuck 0]

I once ate a barbed-wire fence on a rag-doll landing early in my skydiving experience.

Kevin - Sonic Beef #5 - OrFun #28
"I never take myself too seriously, 'cuz everybody know fat birds don't fly." - FLC
Online communities: proof that people never mature much past high school.

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I wanted to give people a goal and I said a clean brake off. That means 3000+, not blow them away with something hard and Dangerous.

open at 1800 is great but I'm sure you were set up for a sub 15sec 4stack build. I was on a three-way that turned nine from 3200 and we're not talking grip switches they were long two and one piece moves.

Those of us who have been around for a while have all done the low break off multi point skydive ( reminds me of 5 or 6 twenty ways in a row breaking off below 35 ). If you haven't your a better person then me.

HPDBs, I hate those guys.
AFB, charter member.

[D22369 0]

i was on a dive with Dave (livendive) where we turned a four way - 3 pts from 2400.....

Do you remember the points? Bet you didn't do block 22 .


round-right had donut-left hand donut----run away quickly

Roy

They say I suffer from insanity.... But I actually enjoy it.

[D22369 0]

open at 1800 is great but I'm sure you were set up for a sub 15sec 4stack build. ***

granted we were closer than normal, but as I recall no one was dangerously close,
having a good canopy at 1800' means that we all pulled above the USPA D license minimum altitude.

I was with 3 experienced skydivers that I know and trust, I knew everyone would do their best to get away. This dive wasnt one I would do with people If I didnt know their abilities.

now a 20 way breaking at 3500..... thats crazy

Roy

They say I suffer from insanity.... But I actually enjoy it.

[D22369 0]

How the hell could *you* miss the dripping sarcasm?
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I missed nothing.... I know you too well --- I could even hear you saying that statement
Roy

They say I suffer from insanity.... But I actually enjoy it.

[JENNR8R 0]

The winner of the most memorable landing is Post #50. The prize is some of my famous Pumpkin Bread that I just took out of the oven. It will be in the mail to L.O. first thing in the morning.

Here is the winning line:

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Landing Erika as a wife, was the best landing I ever made.

What do you call a beautiful, sunny day that comes after two cloudy, rainy
ones? -- Monday.

[Balls 0]

My most memorable landing wasn't mine.

I show up for my first tandem (right after HS graduation) with some friends and parents. While talking to the TM, he points out a student coming in on his final approach. The guy lands on the taxi way and instead of doing a PLF, he slides in on his knees. He walks over all bloody and my mom freaked out. She thought I was going to die.

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....so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."