Ok, so how many of you started jumping because you wanted to beat a fear of heights?

[bob.dino 1]

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Yes. I have an opening for a cabana boy

But do you have a cabana? Don't go putting the cart before the horse now...

[NWFlyer 2]

Details, details... obtaining the cabana is the easy part. Quality cabana boys are so much harder to find.

[Amazon 7]

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Quality cabana boys are so much harder to find.

Lordy... aint that the truth

[ExAFO 0]

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Yup it worked pretty well.. BUT actually I started climbing.. I get FAR worse fear of heights on a rock face than in an airplane.

Ditto. I'm nervous until the plane gets above a safe reserve-bail-out alt.

Illinois needs a CCW Law. NOW.

[masterrig 1]

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Nope didn't work for me...I can jump out of a plane at 14,000ft but I still get a small amount of vertigo when I climb up a ladder. Still can't lean over a one story rooftop.

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How do you explain that? I experience the same thing. When that plane door opens and the desire to 'bail', the exhileration and the whole experience. Then, getting on a ladder or roof-top. I can't explain it. I'm acrophobic as all git-out.


Chuck

[AggieDave 6]

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I've never understood people who decided to cure a fear of hights by jumping. It, never seems to have worked in the cases I have observed. Frankly those people always seem so nervous, I worried that they would freeze up in the event of a mal.

You're so right, I completely froze on the 4 malfunctions I've had, 3 on tandems, thank god that student didn't die.




Ok, sarcastic response is over. Seriously, it isn't about people being nervous or not nervous, its about people's ability to deal with complex situations quickly. With that said, obviously, not everyone is cut out for skydiving.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[nigel99 618]

It was explained to me that we are afraid of heights cause our mind is telling us to jump! Makes sense to me.

Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

[masterrig 1]

I can't dispute it.


Chuck

[mdrejhon 8]

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Scared him to death everytime we got a new pilot

I find I get scared with new pilots now. Especially ones that don't take off as steady as the familiar ones. Sure, they're good pilots or the DZO wouldn't have hired them, but I still tense up when an unfamiliar pilot make a steep banked turn mere seconds after takeoff.

I'm a little less scared when a more experienced pilot picks up speed flying level at 100 feet, then makes a sudden steep climb (20+ degree angle or something similiar) with all that extra speed built up, but it does perk me up from trying to start a Cessna snooze. An airspace-related manoever, probably.