Something cool to do with the skydiving equipment.

[drenaline 0]

I dunno if you have done it but it's really fun to go in a fast car at full speed put on your goggles and stick your head out of the window (in the passenger sit of course, have a driver for that and make sure there are no cars outside), you get to feel the speed, the wind, the pressure, almost like sticking your head out of the cessna for the spot.
Been on earth for to much... gotta jump gotta jump...
"Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?"
drenaline

[SkydiveMonkey 0]

You forgot to mention that you shout "5 left" to the diver and open the door !!
When I grow up, I want to be a post whore

[nacmacfeegle 0]

When your trying to explain how 'body pilot' stuff works, its good to get a whuffoe to put their hand out the window, and see how the wind applies different forces etc......Gets em thinking more about flying, rather than falling.
Cya
D

[drenaline 0]

HAHAHA! the five left five right CUT! makes a great addition! thanx
gonna try it, I sure hope I remember am in a car!
Hey nacmacfeegle that works alot, and if you give them the goggles and tell them to stick theyr head out of the window, they love it and want to skydive!.

[Spy38W 0]

It's all fun and games until someone throws the pilot chute...
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Give them a sip of the darkside, and they just thirst for more.

[Sebazz1 2]

Since we are talking about skydiving and cars, do you ~carw~. It's kinda like RW in the old days were you pass a baton between skydivers, well in this case you pass something between two cars.........err wait this is a public forum um well I have heard of people doing this ~carw~ stuff...........
Fun to do but very very dangerous but fun
Sebazz........

[nacmacfeegle 0]

"It's all fun and games until someone throws the pilot chute..."
Just like 'real' skydiving....hehehe
Cya
D

[freeflir29 0]

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You forgot to mention that you shout "5 left" to the diver and open the door !!

Boy....did I get the strangest looks yesterday when I turned around and yelled "5 Right" to the Otter pilot. The tandem masters thought I was joking........ Until I added some explitives to the correction.
"It's all about the BOOBIES!"

[freeflir29 0]

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I have heard of people doing this ~carw~ stuff..

There's a film of that on Headdown.net. Pretty funny. They even have the formation diagram on the bottom of the screen like comp videos.
"It's all about the BOOBIES!"

[Haeloth 0]

It is very hard to keep drunken skydivers in a van from spotting. Especially if it has rear door or sliding side door. For some reason we usually end up driving with open doors. Never figured out why.
Nobody expects the...um...the Spanish...um...

[Sebazz1 2]

**SPECIAL NEWS REPORT UPDATE**
**This just in....Police officers around the country eager for a promotion are camping out in front of DZ's everywhere**
Who do think an officer would pull over in a carw big way? The low car.........Sebazz........

[nacmacfeegle 0]

So, I'm in Palatka, on their Cessna back in '93. It was my first (I know, beer!) self spot (required for s/l prog). Its a brand new diver driver on the DZ.
I stick out the melon, and stare intently at the dz. I glance at Bram Clemens, my instructor and he smiles knowingly .... spot, spot, spot, spot, spot, spot, for a verry long time. I give my first ever correction (mucho beer was bought on that trip) "180 right". After a brief altercation with the pilot, I got my thigh crushing 'big G' 180 right.....
Yup, the 'jump run' was a down winder.
A bit a curve ball for newbie n'est pas?
Log book said "acceptable spotting, cleared for next level", ya gotta admire the Dutch sense of understatement.
Anyone know where Bram is these days??
Cya
D

[hobbes4star 0]

[You forgot to mention that you shout "5 left" to the diver and open the door]
You forgot to yell CUT, than open door
why jump when you can fly

[SkydiveMonkey 0]

You cut the engine? We don't. If your last out, you've got less altitude to play with When I grow up, I want to be a post whore

[freeflir29 0]

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Yup, the 'jump run' was a down winder.

I never thought that really mattered all that much. As long as you have an acceptable exit plan. Pretty damn good for a newbie. Better than mine....seems there was a bit of "Industrial haze" right below us. The JM could tell where we were by a landmark about 2 miles from the DZ. I stared....He yells "GO!" I look up and ask "NOW?"....."Yes get out!!!!" So, I went....we were getting a little long but it was OK. "It's all about the BOOBIES!"

[skybytch 273]

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It is very hard to keep drunken skydivers in a van from spotting.

I prefer to float the van. Let someone else spot! pull & flare,
lisa
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On the other hand...you have different fingers

[Spy38W 0]

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There's a film of that on Headdown.net

Which category is the movie in? I couldn't find it
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Give them a sip of the darkside, and they just thirst for more.

[freeflir29 0]

Click on the "Movies" category and right in the center. I couldn't open it but I'm pretty sure thats it. The picture is of a guy with headphones on.
"It's all about the BOOBIES!"

[jtval 0]

i miss my trips to the dz with my buddy. We would do shit like this all the time.
the first time we did it we were way low-timers and we got winded(over14mhp) off our jumps.so we had a three hr ride home. I looked over at my buddy, Mark, and said
"think you can get to 120?" he smiled and preceded to get to 120... with my head and arms out the window.
all the time i was "whoooo-hoooin' at all the cars i was passing. Titanic didnt have shit on us ground bound skydivers.!
getting high is fun, but coming down is the best part
JT

[indyz 1]

I think the url is http://www.headdown.net/archive/movies/cuttaisforbogs.mpeg. The picture showed 4 cars side-by-side. It's a 30 meg file and I'm only getting 9.8k/sec on ResNet. Something ain't right.
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Brian

[Sinkster 0]

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[You forgot to mention that you shout "5 left" to the diver and open the door]
You forgot to yell CUT, than open door

At my DZ when I had to do my first spot they had me open the door before giving any corrections at all so I could see better and especially so you could look straight down and yell cut right over the perfect spot! Sticking my head out when the engine was going full blast was a lot of fun! hehe
That first hop-n-pop and cessna ride (jump 15) was a FUN jump! Scary as *&@#! for my AFF self (I almost never curse but I said "OH SH1T!" before diving off the step into what I recall as a wonderfully slow and stable wind compared to the super twin otter and felt very justified in expressing myself like that! In fact, if I was not addicted to skydiving before, I sure am now! Anyone else experience this transition too? The fear just melted away and I don't know for sure how, but I definately like it. The respect remains of course. But I'm so glad I persevered! What a wonderful experience skydiving is.
-Sinkster

[Spy38W 0]

Cool, thanks for the link indyz, funny vid. --
Give them a sip of the darkside, and they just thirst for more.

[Haeloth 0]

Listen to the lyrics in the song on the video. Probably the weirdest song in a skydiving video. Ever.
Nobody expects the...um...the Spanish...um...

[indyz 1]

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Listen to the lyrics in the song on the video. Probably the weirdest song in a skydiving video. Ever.

I think that's an Adam Sandler song. He was pretty funny when I was in middle school.
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Brian

[ChromeBoy 0]

Nice video. It gave me goosebumps just thinking about my cutaway.