efs4ever 3 #1 June 29, 2007 edjackson made note of it HERE when discussing his "bonus time" since surviving a serious crash at Tullahoma. Anyone else on bonus time? I've been enjoying mine since hitting a canopy in freefall in September 1991. Long story, and I posted it on Wreck back then. Upshot is that I hit a canopy in freefall, got knocked out (NO AAD) and managed to survive. Not sure if this is "General Skydiving" or "Bonfire" since some bonus time might have accrued due to non skydiving events....Russell M. Webb D 7014 Attorney at Law 713 385 5676 https://www.tdcparole.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CSpenceFLY 1 #2 June 29, 2007 Had a camera guy almost kill me at break off not too long ago. Not sure about bonus time but I'm happy to still be here. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
councilman24 37 #3 June 29, 2007 1981, about 80 jumps. Tension knot, cutaway at 1700', pull immediately, nothing happened. Pulled ripcord rest of way out of housing (the pins (aho, a clue!) were pulled), looked at pins to make sure they were there and threw the RC away. Still nothing, rolled up on side to clear PC in burble and looked up and saw nothing but blue sky. 'Reserve total, guess I'm dead' Looked down and saw I was going to land in a house size, bull dozed brush pile and thought 'I'm going to go straight to the bottom, I wonder how long it will take them to find me.' Reserve opened at 300' at terminal. Looked up, ' I'm alive!', looked down and was heading for wires, 'I'm dead!'. Turned round 180 degrees to drop in front of wires and hit same brush pile. 1987, February demo, ski area in MI. Tight, messy midwinter pack job. Last out of 182 skirting the bottom of the clouds at 2000'. Figure by the time I left it was about 1800' AGL. Stumbled trying to hurry exit, took a couple of seconds to ensure I was stable and threw. Nothing, looked back and saw PC in tow, looked at reserve, grabbed it with both hands and pulled. Watching trees. Got stood up under something but no time to look up before I went into top of trees half way up ski hill. Under both main and reserve but not fully slowed down. Just like a first jump student looked down and stuck out my leg to brace. My foot hit the crotch of a tree, shattered the distal end of my tibia and a chunk out of my fibula and ended up hanging 40' up the tree, half way up the hill. Took me 1 1/2 hours to explain to fire dept how to get me down with out ladder or bucket. Pain every day since then. but also 1800 jumps. Bonus time two, seven lives left. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bozo 0 #4 June 29, 2007 Anyone else on bonus time? I've been enjoying mine since hitting a canopy in freefall in September 1991. Long story, and I posted it on Wreck back then. .. Yeah...me too. June 26th 1996. Turbulence collapsed my canopy and the one of my buddy Rays. It killed Ray.....I fell 100 feet under a ball of shit and broke bunches of stuff.....and yes, you do bounce. The anniversary was Tuesday last. bozo Pain is fleeting. Glory lasts forever. Chicks dig scars. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jceman 1 #5 June 29, 2007 There is another thread in this very forum regarding the same subject, so rather than post to this one, I'll just post the link. Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stratostar 5 #6 June 29, 2007 Quotethe pins (aho, a clue!) were pulled), looked at pins to make sure they were there and threw the RC away. & 'Reserve total, guess I'm dead' Your the second person I know of to try and be a grim reaper Racer. The other guy lived too but it never opened, good thing he hit the grass right next to the front bumper of a caddy in a parking lot, so grabbing grass dose work.you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
councilman24 37 #7 June 29, 2007 PROTOTYPE Rainbow Flyers 1974-75 Super Swooper Tandem. "What does SST stand for?" I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 35 #8 June 29, 2007 Yeah... going on 10 1/2 years since the canopy collision I had at Emerald Coast where the other guy died. I landed safely. Another time I had my left leg strap get pulled all the way out to the end on exit from a King Air as a rear floater on a 10 way when I got hung up on the floater in front of me. I didn't know it until after breakoff, and spent almost too long fighting to get it re-cinched. No aad, in the saddle at 700 feet. 2 months later I got a cypres. Oh damn... that jump was 10 years ago this month!"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
beowulf 1 #9 June 29, 2007 Not from skydiving, but from a car accident. My first helicopter ride was a life flight. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
catfishhunter 2 #10 June 29, 2007 QuoteNot sure if this is "General Skydiving" or "Bonfire" since some bonus time might have accrued due to non skydiving events.... Since you put it out there..Took a Knife in the chest stopping a robbery on the Strip. 2 inches to the right I ain't here. I have more close calls that didn't end with injury from Being Shot at to car accidents to OD's Guess God wasn't ready for me yet. So every day is a Bonus day after the life i've lead... MAKE EVERY DAY COUNT Life is Short and we never know how long we are going to have. We must live life to the fullest EVERY DAY. Everything we do should have a greater purpose. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stratostar 5 #11 June 29, 2007 Yea got one just like it, only different, packed and ready to jump but with a MK-1 in it. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JerryBaumchen 1,466 #12 June 29, 2007 Hi efs4ever, 17 Sep 67 (the day before my birthday; I wokeup on my birthday in the hospital) I was sitting in the seat (that is difficult to see) in this doorway. We went almost straight in. I can still see the blades of grass coming up at me and saying to myself "I'm going to die in an airplane crash." Almost 40 yrs of Bonus Time. It just was not my day, Jerry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Krip 2 #13 June 29, 2007 Sitting in the saddle at 300' after very low pull and pilot chute hesitation. Opened below the tree line, approx 1971 By the time we walked back to the DZ my room mates had already taken dibs my car, girlfriend, and gearDumb, lucky, Dead man walking Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tombuch 0 #14 June 29, 2007 Bridge Day 1983. I was making my third BASE jump ever as a two way. My partner opened a bit lower and slower than expected, and his canopy surged forward and to the left. I opened a bit higher and faster than expected. He slammed into my lines and my parachute collapsed and started spinning. He tried to kick out but was so tangled in the lines that he couldn't get free. I fired my reserve, but the pilot chute simply dropped between my legs and did nothing. I hand deployed it back into the air, but because we were spinning so fast it wrapped around a riser. The pilot chute wasn't able to extract the reserve, but it did put enough tension on the lines so my partner could finally kick free. As he did that the reserve fell out of the pack tray, but the diaper (it was a round) stayed locked so the reserve wouldn't open. Once the other jumper was free of the lines my main opened back up, the spinning pretty much stopped, and I had just enough time to get myself into the channel of the river where a rescue boat picked my up. As I sat in the boat another jumper launched directly overhead and had a pilot chute in tow. He smoked it down so low that we were sure he was going to slam into the small boat at about 100 mph and kill us all. He fired his reserve at just a couple of hundred feet. As he did that main pack tray loosened up, and the reserve and main opened instantly. He splashed down right next to the boat with his main on one side of the boat, and his reserve on the other. As he was climbing into the boat he asked "...did I do the right thing?" That night in the jumpers bar somebody offered the following toast: "The nasty grim reaper got lost in the haze" "So welcome my friend, to Bonus Days" Carl Boenish was on hand filming from a cherry picker. The whole experience was included on the 1983 BASE classic "Reaching."Tom Buchanan Instructor Emeritus Comm Pilot MSEL,G Author: JUMP! Skydiving Made Fun and Easy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 140 #15 June 29, 2007 www.skydivingmovies.com helmet entanglement video... Do I qualify for bonus days ? It was April 16 2006scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Glitch 0 #16 June 29, 2007 I'd certainly think so... Randomly f'n thingies up since before I was born... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisL 2 #17 June 29, 2007 Quote edjackson made note of it HERE when discussing his "bonus time" since surviving a serious crash at Tullahoma. Anyone else on bonus time? I've been enjoying mine since hitting a canopy in freefall in September 1991. I've been clinically dead (no pulse, no breathing) for over a minute, not once, but 2 times in my life resulting from: a: drowning as a child b: bleeding out as an adult I'm definitely on bonus time__ My mighty steed Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bwilling 0 #18 June 29, 2007 Quote PROTOTYPE Rainbow Flyers 1974-75 Super Swooper Tandem. "What does SST stand for?" Struggle, Struggle, Thud. Edited to add that my bonus day story is in the link to the other thread... I'm definitely on bonus days. Twice if you want to consider the heart attack that didn't kill me last summer. "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybytch 273 #19 June 29, 2007 Late 1995. Still under 20 tandem jumps with "live" students. I managed to put us into a side spin a couple seconds out the door. I was pretty sure we were dead, but I did what Ted Strong and Bill Morrison said to do and got us out of it. Two people on bonus time from one jump, but only one of us was aware of just how lucky we were... I met Bill a couple years later and, yes, I thanked him profusely. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 35 #20 June 29, 2007 Quote As I sat in the boat another jumper launched directly overhead and had a pilot chute in tow. He smoked it down so low that we were sure he was going to slam into the small boat at about 100 mph and kill us all. He fired his reserve at just a couple of hundred feet. As he did that main pack tray loosened up, and the reserve and main opened instantly. He splashed down right next to the boat with his main on one side of the boat, and his reserve on the other. As he was climbing into the boat he asked "...did I do the right thing?" Holy... Fucking... Shit.... dude.... did you check your pants after that? "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanuckInUSA 0 #21 June 29, 2007 I was a passenger in a serious car accident back in the early 80s (a split second sooner into the intersection and I wouldn't be here). To this day that is the closest I have come to death. Hell ya I'm on bonus days. I have also had a couple of questionable freefly related freefall close calls and have been in the corner under canopy while learning to swoop. But I'm not so sure those rank up there like that car accident. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pirana 0 #22 June 29, 2007 I'm on bonus time, but not due to skydiving. I was hit by a car while delivering newspapers on a bicycle (age about 10), got hit by a motorcycle while riding a bicycle about age 12 or 13 - that was a very bad one, the guy was doing at least 90 MPH and I was incredibly lucky), fell 40' out of a tree at age 12 - an ER Doc told me 80% of people who fall over 20' to a hard surface die), got broadsided by a pickup while riding a motorcycle at about age 18, caught myself cartoon style on a treelimb just as I was about to fall 200' down a steep cliff when I was 25. There are a few others, so many I have forgotten some, and a few I can not tell about due to statutes of limitations. The running joke is that now that I have discovered the relatively safe sport of skydiving, and cast my other misadventures aside, I can probably look forward to living to a nice ripe old age. If could just stop smoking." . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fast 0 #23 June 29, 2007 QuoteI was a passenger in a serious car accident back in the early 80s (a split second sooner into the intersection and I wouldn't be here). To this day that is the closest I have come to death. Hell ya I'm on bonus days. I have also had a couple of questionable freefly related freefall close calls and have been in the corner under canopy while learning to swoop. But I'm not so sure those rank up there like that car accident. Right there with ya! I have had some close calls skydiving, but I was a passenger in a car during a head on collision, both cars doing 60mph. No seatbelt. All 4 in the car lived. No clue how that worked out but it did.~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stratostar 5 #24 June 29, 2007 Quote If could just stop smoking Just don't buy anymore! I'm on week 13 this coming Monday and I was a slave to Marlboro reds for 25 yrs. quit cold turkey. You have to really want to quit! It helps to think about stuff like: 1.That new car I wish I had to drive, RJR is driving. 2.That new canopy I wish I had, RJR is jumping it. 3.That new house i wish I lived in, RJR is living there. 4.That extra money I wish I had in a savings account RJR is spending it. 5.That vacation I wish I could afford to take the last 20 + yrs, RJR took it. And so and so it goes, if you want to quit, then do it today, right now, stop making excuses.you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 35 #25 June 29, 2007 Quote Quote I was a passenger in a serious car accident back in the early 80s (a split second sooner into the intersection and I wouldn't be here). To this day that is the closest I have come to death. Hell ya I'm on bonus days. I have also had a couple of questionable freefly related freefall close calls and have been in the corner under canopy while learning to swoop. But I'm not so sure those rank up there like that car accident. Right there with ya! I have had some close calls skydiving, but I was a passenger in a car during a head on collision, both cars doing 60mph. No seatbelt. All 4 in the car lived. No clue how that worked out but it did. I was a passenger in a Porsche 914 that broadsided a Camry at 60 mph when it ran a red light and spun it out of the way. My friend and I were not hurt at all. Neither was the teenage fucker in the other car... He was lucky, we hit him behind the driver's door. The hit did shear the engine mounts and dropped it to the street, dragging us to a grinding halt a block away, the impact had knocked the brakes out. The funny part is while we were rolling after the hit, we looked at each other and asked "are you okay?" "yeah", then a Mercedes convertible pulled up alongside us and the man and a knockout woman asked us if we were okay, we answered yeah and they drove off. That was a surreal moment...."Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
