balloon jumps?

[everymansaved 0]

Hey all, I'm up in Calgary, Canada, and a bunch of us are wanting to do some jumps from a hot air balloon. Has anyone done this? Especially in Canada, I would be interested in finding out how hard it is to find someone to take us up etc... Anyone have any thoughts?

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[BRYANGOESBOOM 0]

how many jumps do you have?????

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[Guest 1010]

I highly recommend this thread, and these posts in it in particular:

Alan and Alan again and Tom Aiello's thoughts on balloon exits.

And this post and to a lessor extent, thread seems reasonable. (I see no need to turn off the Cypres if the landing area is/will be the same place/altitude you take off from.)

Somone said don't let the balloon pilot cheat you on the altitude. And, it seems reasonable to me to think of a balloon jump as a demo, without them actually being demos. (Off-DZ landing; someone else's property? Canopy skills/need to land in a smaller place? Any fences/powerlines/ turblence-causing obstacles? What are the normal things taken care of by a DZ that you'll need to do on your own? Got some ground crew? )

USPA SIM 2005 Demo chapter

http://www.uspa.org/publications/SIM/2005SIM/section7.htm


But most importantly - they sound freaking awesome! Gonna have to do one of those myself sometime!

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[rushmc 23]

FYI
Here is a link to a friend of mine's website.
He has some balloon jump vidios for you...

http://www.manifestmaster.com/video/

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[ryoder 1,590]

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And, it seems reasonable to me to think of a balloon jump as a demo, without them actually being demos. (Off-DZ landing; someone else's property? Canopy skills/need to land in a smaller place? Any fences/powerlines/ turblence-causing obstacles? What are the normal things taken care of by a DZ that you'll need to do on your own? Got some ground crew? )

Absolutely correct! 3 out of 4 of my balloon jumps resulted in landing in or near the peas. The other one, (the first one), resulted in landing miles away in a town. So think of it as a demo where you have no idea where you will be landing until shortly before exit.

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