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  1. jumpinfarmer
    It would definently be a two seater my buddy who wants one also has a wife who wants one so it will certianly be a two seater. Next time remember it's easier to beg forgiveness then ask permission.
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    thanks for the heads up, caught most of it, know I'm all horned up on skydive porn.
  3. jumpinfarmer
    I've got a pair of Flexie over the glasses goggles, they work great. My biggest fear is losing my goggles and glasses in free fall I'm blind as a bat without them.
  4. jumpinfarmer
    When warm weather returns come up to Frontier then you can see Lake Ontario as you flip on exit.
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    Good idea. I do have a neighbor with a plane and an air strip that a joins the farm. He's offered me a ride several times before but he's a little loopy and I do value my life. I guess having a parachute on my back would make me feel safer.
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    My exit weight is about 175 and I've been jumping a 169 for the last several jumps. My instructors say I'm fine with it and I do have much better landings then with the 209s I jumped before but I wonder if it's to small for someone of my experience.
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    What kind of plane you jumpin from? My exits suck to, but there getting better. I've had the best luck with the rear floater position. when you do get a good exit you will be stable so quick you won't know what to do next.
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    I know. I wouldn't try it for a long time, I was just interested if it could be done. Ever since my first jump I've thought it would be cool to jump onto my own farm.
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    I've yet to land in a plane, ever ! The ride to altitude doesn't bother me but I really don't like it, it's sorta like riding the bus to school, although I can't wait to get there, something I never said about school. I do think the take off rocks.
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    I'm wondering if it is possible to jump from a powered parachute? I would like to know if it is even legal ? I have a friend who won't jump because he's to cheap, but for several years has talked about buying a powered parachute to check his corps. Now that I've started skydiving I've became interested in the powered parachute idea, before I just ignored it. If it is possible to jump from one I could get him to give me a lift and land on my own farm. I think I'm just dreaming but would like to know if it's possible.
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    It's a cheaper way thats for sure. I like them because your not in the plane very long, I love skydiving but don't really like the plane ride.
  12. jumpinfarmer
    Great! I can't exit stable consistently I might have a couple of good ones and then blow the next few. I also tend to look down when jumping alone,try to pick out ground references while in free fall. If your lookin down you might as well get somethin out of it . I find it hard to do just what I want when by my self, I guess it's because I don't dirt dive my solos with someone.
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    It's ffen cold here to. Made my last jump in the rain from 5500ft, rain feels like gravel at terminal. Buy some tight fitting gloves like machanics or something, they work good for jumping. I hope to get at least one more this year!
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    how did it go? it was 18 here this morning i wanted to go to the dz but chickened out because of the cold. instead i put money in the new rig account by picking some corn for a neighbor.
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    Call around some DZs will let jump some won't. I made a tandem at one DZ, and did my first three affs at another, all wile in Ill. on a farm related trip(boy did I have a story to tell when I got home). After I got home and couldn't stop thinking about skydiving I called the closest DZ to where I live. The DZO was an ass hole on the phone and I almost gave up, but didn't and the next DZ (85miles away and a club not a business) was verry friendly.
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    Seakev do you know Steve Beare!
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    I've thought a lot about it, everything that can go wrong. The way I look at it I know a lot of people that have been hurt or worse killed doing anything but skydiving. That doesn't make it any safer but you get the point. You need to learn all you can that will help to build confidence, and plant your emergency procedures in your head.
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    I'm trying to fit it in as best I can. With winter coming snowmobiling will help to pass the time, but when warm weather comes and the DZ opens in the spring watch out. I do try to balance it out, family picnics, work, birthday parties, tractor pulls, more work,fire department stuff, you get the picture. I would really like to convert some of my ground hog friends but I don't hold out much hope.
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    I hope to get to travel to some warm spot to jump this winter, if I can get someone to cover my snow plow route while I'm away. It sucks but I have to pay for all my toys with something.
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    Does anyone know about prescription skydiving goggles, I know they are available but I would like to know how well they work.
  21. jumpinfarmer
    Find and read an article in the November Parachutist magazine titled A hush fall through the sky it's about an all deaf boogie.
  22. jumpinfarmer
    It's an adiction plain and simple, you can't get over it.If I don't jump for a couple of weeks I start to get verry testy. After jumping work seems to go better, I find myself looking skyward all week, at planes, clouds, checking wind, and practicing exits from beams in one of my hay barns, it's all I can think about. I don't think it's going to go away any time soon. At least I hope it dosn't!
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    don't worry you've got lots of time.at least thats what they told me,it is true.the plane ride is so short you don't have time to think or worry about it.i was scared as hell jumping from where i would normaly have already pulled but when it was over i think it was the most fun i had had on a jump,it was also my first solo.with the rainy cold low cloud weather we've been having here i'm getting good at hop n pops.
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    i've made 22 ju7mps so far and noticed that on the last few i wasn't nervous.the first few were bad i always wondered what i was doing in the plane,until i exited, then i knew why i was there.as soon as i landed i couldn't whait to go again,and the second jump of the day is always less nerve racking.
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    at my dz it's not just the jumping that makes you a regular.you know your starting to fit in when your asked if you want to go to dinner after jumping with the regulars.we're a club so you also feel more loved when they start asking you to do chores like returning empty beer bottles.