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QuoteOnly for night landings.
Smartass.
mdrejhon 8
Me, me, me!
Here's my night jump.
I like the city lights at night too as well. I jumped solo since this was my first night jump. You can see my "I did it" smile.
Here's my night jump.
I like the city lights at night too as well. I jumped solo since this was my first night jump. You can see my "I did it" smile.
QuoteHint for those reading this and thinking about their first night jump......
Data 1 - People at night sit around the Bonfire and it may look like fun to fly over it on the way to your landing -
Data 2 - Your canopy is made of nylon.
Data 3 - Bonfires put up sparks and updrafts
The rest is left as an exercise for the student.
(Not speaking from personal experience, just observation)
Hint: The solution is to fly faster... Swoop the bonfire.... Whooosh!
Ah, the night jump stories I can tell. My favorite is being at a turbine DZ as a visitor, making night jumps, and having nearly five times the number of Night jumps as the S&TA or any other 'experienced' night jumper on the load.
I was not suprised to see one of the locals break his leg that night.
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Ken
Ken
bch7773 0
I loooove night jumps.
I've only done two... but my first night jump was on the first night jump load EVER done by a PAC750.
second one wasn't "technically" a night jump, but we couldn't even see the sun at altitude anymore. But it was a demo into a football field so it was at least lit up. However, they didn't tell us there would be another lit up football field about a mile away. We almost jumped into the wrong game
Thank god for ground crew on radio, saying "You're on jump run? I only see one plane and its like a mile away!"
MB 3528, RB 1182
I've only done two... but my first night jump was on the first night jump load EVER done by a PAC750.
second one wasn't "technically" a night jump, but we couldn't even see the sun at altitude anymore. But it was a demo into a football field so it was at least lit up. However, they didn't tell us there would be another lit up football field about a mile away. We almost jumped into the wrong game
Thank god for ground crew on radio, saying "You're on jump run? I only see one plane and its like a mile away!"MB 3528, RB 1182
I love night jumps and want to do another as soon as I can.
Does anyone know the next time San Diego, Elsinore or Perris will have a night jump?
Does anyone know the next time San Diego, Elsinore or Perris will have a night jump?
Travman 6
Here I am after my first night jump.
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Hit a barbed wired fence landing off DZ.
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Hit a barbed wired fence landing off DZ.
Mikki_ZH 0
Night jump Mexican Style with guests from Texas...
Jump was in Puerto Escondido
Jump was in Puerto Escondido
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depends on how urban the DZ is too. It can be pretty well lit when you're just off a city, and pretty black otherwise.
And for all the notions of planning night jumps around the moon, both times I did it the moon came up later in the evening after jump activities were completed.
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