outthere 0 #1 July 31, 2001 Hi allI have been mostly lurking about and soaking up everyone else's conversations and learning what's up around here. I just finished my AFF a couple weeks ago - 2 months of waiting for the winds, 2 days of jumping and then - BOOM - i'm out the door all by myself:)Gotta say my first solo was the hardest part - harder than the first jump, harder thena the backloops and solo exit - it was late in the day, all the tandems were done hours ago and there were no other students, so as a solo I was to be the last one out the door. Everyone else got out in two groups and I was left on the plane all alone - noone to say it's time to go, noone waiting for me to get out so they could go, thinking there is nothing keeping me from sitting back down and riding the plane back down to planet earth, but what the hell there's the door and then I am out an in the air with my first chance to just hangout and let myself rotate in slow 360s sightseeing as I fall from 14 grand=) and then i knew i was hooked for good.so now i have taken the plung of shelling out the $ for my first rig and waiting for the weekend to come so I can jump it - hopefully - we got winded out Sunday, the day i bought it and that was the last day on the reserve pack, so i'm crossing my fingers(and hope you'll cross your fingers with me) that my rigger gets it repacked by saturday and the winds cooperate so i can jump it.thanks to everyone who responded to my post on the gear forum - re: shoudl i buy an eclipse container - and helped me make up my mind. I'm just glad to have somewhere to shout this out cause everyone else I know outside the DZ just kind of goes - "oh that's nice" when i say ibought a rig, and have no clue hat it's all about.see ya in the skye Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
outthere 0 #3 July 31, 2001 yeah everyone at the DZ is hoping the winds cooperate too cause the rule is i don't owe beer 'till i get to jump it.e Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viking 0 #4 July 31, 2001 take a look herehttp://www.dropzone.com/gear/Harness_and_Container_Systems/index.shtmlRemember when Sex was safe and skydiving was Dangerous? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
