Aw f@rk, winter is here.

[vonSanta 0]

Santa at 4000 meters, getting ready to do a linked sit exit with sis. Cloudcover is thick and extensive but there gotta be a hole somewhere.

Pilot: "2 minutes til drop"
ATC: "Say what??"
Pilot: "2...minutes...til...drop"
ATC: "Umm, we're enveloped in clouds, can you see through?"
Pilot: "Ummm. Permission to descend through clouds. Will make another 2 minute call later"
ATC: "Alright Oscar Juliet Papa, cleared for descent"

So we start the descent. Which continues and continues. At 1300 meters we finally break through. 2 minute call, door opens.

And SNOW flies into the plane. It was only -10C at 4000 meters and it dinnae look like it was raining when we got to 1300. Looks like Mr Winter is approaching fast anyway. Not that it discourages the 5 in front of me - out they go. I do too, wondering what snow will feel like in free fall.

OuchOuchOuchOuchOuchOuchOuch wtf-can't
-see-much-through-goggles-ah-there's-Morten's-pilotchute-time-to-dump. OuchOuchOuch COOOOOOLD

"Umm. Can't feel my fingers. Pants are wet and there's ice melting on my goggles. My canopy is gonna have to be hung up to dry. Maybe they can put me up next to it. Skydiving kicks buttocks".

By this time I'm happy my instructor had ok'd me for the Spectre(sp?) 150 some 15 jumps before. A 140lbs dude under a 280 in those conditions would mean I'd either starve or freeze to death before I got anywhere near the ground. Spiral down, nice landing just off the T, canopy on back and a sprint into the packing area.

Agh, winter means little or no jumping. And I just got started a few months ago. I think it is unfair somehow. I'd move, but I'm an unemployed bum and all the good cardboard boxes are taken. I fear the winter depression will be a *real* bitch this time around.

Santa Von GrossenArsch
I only come in one flavour
ohwaitthatcanbemisunderst

[pds 0]

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but I'm an unemployed bum and all the good cardboard boxes are taken.

i'll sell you mine. cheap.

namaste, motherfucker.

[Tonto 1]

Nah! Summer's coming! Southern Hemi's heating up!

t

It's the year of the Pig.

[katiebear21 0]

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"Umm. Can't feel my fingers. Pants are wet and there's ice melting on my goggles. My canopy is gonna have to be hung up to dry. Maybe they can put me up next to it. Skydiving kicks buttocks".

Dude, you're a riot! LMAO! Yeah, skydiving kicks A$$!

Katie
Get your PMS glass necklace here

[dterrick 0]

Ice on the wing strut of out Cessna at 8,000 ft this weekend...at 9k we were at 20 fht.

Welcome to "fall" in Canada.

We also do winter jumps. Those are just insane but trust me, one or 2 hop n pops in that temperature fixes you for a while

Dave

Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

[bbarnhouse 0]

Yay winter is coming! No more 125 degree weather, sweating, evaporating, dehydrating.
Warm gloves and neck warmers....flying from 8 am to sunset 7 days a week. Life is good!