youngest tandem passenger?

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I've just watched a video of Dave Morris taking a kid who can't have been more than eight for a tandem skydive. He loved it, but surely thats totally illegal? I don't know what the regulations on age regarding skydiving in other countries is, but here in the UK you have to be sixteen to legally leave a flying plane. Can anyone tell me what country that was done in, cause i'm a bit pissed off that i had to wait until i was sixteen to jump when i could have at least done a tandem when i was a little nipper.

[fudd 0]

Seriously, an eight year old isn't old enough to realize the dangers of skydiving. In Norway you have to be 18 or 16 with parental aprovement. Personally, I think even 16 is a bit young. Maybe not for tandem, but at least for takeing a license.
As for loving it, sure. I would have absolutely digged getting a tandem at the age of eight. I would also love to drive a car, fighter jet, bungee jump, scuba dive, base jumping and probably even would have tried landing a wingsuit. The possibility of getting seriously injured or die would barely have crossed my mind...
-fudd

[kingbunky 3]

I can't remember the names of the jumpers, but I do remember reading in Skydiving where a couple took their 3(?!) year old on a tandem. Dad was the tandem master, mom flew camera.

"Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart."
MB4252 TDS699
killing threads since 2001

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Rook Nelson did a tandem at four years of age. The pictures are cool!

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[skygod7777 0]

i did my first tandem when i was 7 years old with my dad. i didn't really have a clue what was going on. i just went, i loved it, but i didn't know or understand the dangers, but i was with my dad, so who cares.

blue sky's and long swoops
kelly

"hook low, flare late.............dirt, tumble, dirt...........ouch"

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Yep, it is amazing how easily we will follow our Fathers. Which is why Golfers should not breed!!!

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