Hkfanatic

well after takeing level 3 twice and passing i had to take a month off due to time and financial constraints. yesterday i just remembered that my temporary USPA membership is expired and i didint sign up for a full membership while i was still jumping. so i applied for my membership but USPA says it could take up to a month to get my application processed. i know that after 30 days you have to rejump your last class, but does that compound with time IE after 60 would i have to go back to level 2??? im not against going backwards, to me a jump is a jump (allthough a rather expensive one right now :) ) and the more i do the easier it will be for me to move forward. but i just dont want to have to start from scratch again and i dont think my DZ will let me jump without a current USPA membership. can anyone tell me what i might be able to do to get back in the air, or am i just gonna have to sit it out until my membership card shows up?

If Your in the LA area i would Def. Recommend Skydive Elsinore. im going through my AFF program there right now and every instructor, employee, jumpers & people around the DZ have been absolutely awesome and fun to be around. i have never had a problem clarifying anything with my instructors and they did a outstanding job explaining everything to me before i got into a plane. at first i was apprehensive and nervous when i started my jump school, in fact i was scared shitless but the instruction they gave me took all of that away and i had an awesome time. your worries of being a slow learner should not be a worry. no one picks up everything the first time through

i've only got a couple of jumps under my belt but my free fall time is spent with me sweating my dive plan. my moment of zen is when the chute bites and i look up and its there and square and its Absolutely quiet. going from the chaos of the free fall to the silence of being under a chute, awesome !!

Here is a video of my level 2 from my main JM helmet Cam. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYkpIYUpNUo We had a little bit of descrepancy in altitude readings, my reserve JM gave me the Pull Hand signal which is why i negated the wave off. i was just about to wave and pull as my alti said 5500 but apparently theirs were reading in the 4800 to 5000 range. which is why the main JM pulled for me. i guess normally i would have failed the course for a JM pull but being that he litterally pulled the pilot chute through my hand he gave me the pass. if you slow the video down you can see me grabbing around for the PVC pull handle as the chutes deploying. i was wondering to my self where the hell did that damn thing go!!! then boom the chute hit and i knew what happened. Thanks again to my 2 Awesome instructors Mike & Johnny

well i passed Level 2 Yesterday, instead of falling like a cannon ball i managed to potato chip :):) i need to relax a bit more. i also apparently fall like a lead brick. at the bottom end of the dive i was falling so fast that my instructors were fighting to stay on my sides and not fold over ontop of me. will get video up shortly

Hey guys, new to the forum so i thought i'd share my first jump. im doing level 2 tomorrow. i did my level one 2 weeks ago. it went pretty well, the instructor i had at elsinore was OUTSTANDING!!!! heres a video from my main JM's helmet cam, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0X9gPcStOE i really REALLY messed my arch up on exit. i started to fix it a little bit towards the end of the dive. im pretty sure the only reason i fell belly to earth was the Two Awesome Gentelmen at my sides. i managed to tuck my left arm under my body when pulling the main, so hopefully in time i can improve my muscle memory. every time my wife isint home i've been practiceing my arch on the living room floor :-) the only snaffu i had that day was a radio faliure, i had to land un assisted by the instructors. im happy that i was able to memorize the landing pattern and all of the canopy flight info my instructor gave me. i came in a bit farther from the DZ then me and my instructor had planned, i think it was due to me trying to stay over top the Dz while in flight so when i hit 1000 ft and started my downwind approach i went pretty far from the DZ before i turned left at 600ft. i also flew at 1/4 brake almost the whole time for some reason. i flared a bit early and came down somewhat hard on a half assed PLF with no injury. all in all im happy to say that im definetly hooked :) hopefully when i do level 2 tomorrow i will be able to ace it