ph.nilsson

Hi everyone, first post for me, here goes! So, a couple of weeks ago I finally cached in on an old birthday gift, a tandem skydive jump. It was quite simply put one of the more awsome things I've ever done and I really haven't been able to stop thinking about it. Thus, I'm considering taking a course and actually start jumping regularly, but there are a couple of questions that i'd like to have answered first :) Firstly, I'm afraid that I'll just be way to scared to actually jump out of the bloody plane. I assume that there are one or two people who had the same feeling before their first jump(s), how do you actually deal with that? Secondly, I'm curious about how one actually learns skydiving? Do you simply get tossed out of a plane with a parachute, or is there some progression involved in the process? This is related to my being scared to death of the actual going out of the aircraft-part of the jump, I'd be much more inclined to do so if it was somehow done in steps... All answers are appreciated, thanks!