For some reason, a lot of first timers' legs and hands will shake on climb out, no matter how many jumps you have. Worried about the video/ exit pressure I guess.
Expect to land in a field, possibly with high crops if you don't pick you spot carefully
Find a few indicators for the wind direction to set up your landing direction: there probably wont be any windsocks where you land.
Prepare for a PLF.
Have fun
Thanks for the advice. Vskydiver and I still haven't made our first balloon jump yet.
Karen and I behaved like 1st jump students when we did ours! lol.... It's hilarious how one reacts to unnatural situations, like the apprehension of "falling" off a basket (while wearing a perfectly good rig! lol)
Expect to land in a field, possibly with high crops if you don't pick you spot carefully
Find a few indicators for the wind direction to set up your landing direction: there probably wont be any windsocks where you land.
Prepare for a PLF.
Have fun
Thanks for the advice. Vskydiver and I still haven't made our first balloon jump yet.
Karen and I behaved like 1st jump students when we did ours! lol.... It's hilarious how one reacts to unnatural situations, like the apprehension of "falling" off a basket (while wearing a perfectly good rig! lol)
first one i made was with an AFFI with around 2000 jumps; we were holding onto each other for dear life!
Karen and I behaved like 1st jump students when we did ours! lol.... It's hilarious how one reacts to unnatural situations, like the apprehension of "falling" off a basket (while wearing a perfectly good rig! lol)
I was fine until I had to climb up onto the edge of the basket. I think it was the silence that really threw me off. No engine noise and no wind noise made seemed to build up the suspense.
Ahhh, I was in Perris recently for the Aussie Bigway camps (which were a blast by the way!!). We had balloon jumps all organised, got up early, met in the carpark on time, drove to the launch site, watched two balloons inflate gracefully, dirt dived exit plan, put on rig and....... My balloon had a defective gas hose .
Got out of balloon, watched the other balloon rise into the air and had to listen to the whoops and hollers from my friends as they jumped.
If only I hadn't been so damn lazy and walked over to the other balloon
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