DeepThought 0 #1 September 8, 2005 There I was flicking through the channels… And I found on Adventure One, that they where showing a programme about extreme sports, a proper documentary by National Geographic, not just one of these shows that show clips of accidents. So I decided to watch it. The Skydiving part was filmed at Weston-on-the-Green It was very interesting at the end, when they got the presenter to do a tandem with a Skysurfer next to him…. I thought that’s interesting. They proceeded to tell him that as it was cloudy, it would be really cool, as they would be opening above the cloud. Then fly through the cloud under canopy. Always a good plan, I thought to myself….. Anyways… they got the “Red Devils” Islander (G-ORED) and told us that it take ten minutes to get to altitude (which was 14k in this case) and made this out to be a long time. I was a bit miffed at this, as when I went to Netheravon it took a little longer. Mind you in this case they only had 4 people in it…. (4 in an Islander… imagine the space…) anyways I digress…. They get to do the jump, and you see a Tandem video, like we all have seen (well the cameraman does lose them on exit). Then at one point you see the tandem, and they are going through thin cloud, then you see the skysurfer come towards them. So, we have a shot of tandem with skysurfer in cloud. That is a good idea, I thought to myself….. Always keep to the plan…… And as we all know for a fact the no BPA member has ever jumped in cloud. So how did this happen I asked my self….. I guess it one rule for us fun jumpers, and another rule for when National Geographic comes a long with some money. -------------------------------------------------- You only have one life, make the most of it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
