How do tandem instructors deal with jumping some of these super hot babes?

[Arvoitus 1]

Also, what if the TI is gay? I think that is more pertinent question actually since the majority of the passengers are dudes.

Your rights end where my feelings begin.

[ryoder 1,384]

Arvoitus

Also, what if the TI is gay? I think that is more pertinent question actually since the majority of the passengers are dudes.

I used to jump at a DZ who had a gay TI.
No one ever brought it up, but I still think it would have been hilarious to have told the male passengers afterward and filmed the reactions.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[quade 3]

ryoder

I used to jump at a DZ who had a gay TI.
No one ever brought it up, but I still think it would have been hilarious to have told the male passengers afterward and filmed the reactions.

And people sometimes call me a buzz kill.

Here is a guy who has just done what he thinks is the most awesome, macho and brave thing anybody can do and you then tell him he enjoyed having a gay dude strapped to his back with a stiffie.

Okay, yeah, that probably would be fun to see.

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[chemist 0]

I think the waiver make passengers sign off that the tandem master might touch you inappropriately (I.e. boner) and you can't sue for sexual harassment...

[NWFlyer 2]

chemist

I think the waiver make passengers sign off that the tandem master might touch you inappropriately (I.e. boner) and you can't sue for sexual harassment...

Yes, that's exactly what the waiver is designed to cover.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[chemist 0]

NWFlyer

***I think the waiver make passengers sign off that the tandem master might touch you inappropriately (I.e. boner) and you can't sue for sexual harassment...

Yes, that's exactly what the waiver is designed to cover.

We'll never know for sure what exactly its designed to cover

[theonlyski 3]

Makes it an awkward canopy flight when the cute female tandem student had a LOT of fun and wants to use your hands for things other than the toggles.

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[NWFlyer 2]

chemist

******I think the waiver make passengers sign off that the tandem master might touch you inappropriately (I.e. boner) and you can't sue for sexual harassment...

Yes, that's exactly what the waiver is designed to cover.

We'll never know for sure what exactly its designed to cover

Remember that part about trying not to be creepy? You're doing it wrong.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[NorrinRadd 0]

Perhaps by not being a 16 year old about it?

Why drive myself crazy trying to be normal, when I am already at crazy?

[normiss 622]

After jumping your mom, the babes are easy.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

[chemist 0]

NWFlyer

You posted elsewhere that you're studying to be a doctor. How, exactly, do you plan to deal professionally with female patients that you find attractive? Particularly when there are times you'll have to look at their naked bodies in a professional context.

Doctors have it a lot easier.

I don't have to have a girls butt directly up against my crotch.

[chemist 0]

normiss

After jumping your mom, the babes are easy.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

No need to get aggressive, I started this thread half serious.

[Mickochet 0]

I only have 2000 tandems but I have never gotten an erection from taking someone on a tandem. Like others have said be both a professional and an adult about what you are doing.

If you never fall down you aren't trying hard enough.

[normiss 622]

I'm not being aggressive in any way.
I just asked a fucking question.

[Squeak 17]

quade

Try not to be creepy.

Too late, Looks like Goonie has a play mate

You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
My Life ROCKS!
How's yours doing?

[NorrinRadd 0]

Why drive myself crazy trying to be normal, when I am already at crazy?

[DcloudZ 0]

Mickochet

I only have 2000 tandems but I have never gotten an erection from taking someone on a tandem. Like others have said be both a professional and an adult about what you are doing.

Have you tried talking to your doctor about viagra?

"Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way." -Alan Watts

[ZigZagMarquis 8]

Their girlfriends and wives kick them really really hard in the nuts before they head to the DZ every morning.

[DougH 270]

Mickochet

I only have 2000 tandems but I have never gotten an erection from taking someone on a tandem. Like others have said be both a professional and an adult about what you are doing.

No kidding. We have a job to do, I have other things to focus on.

And don't get me wrong, we like taking young small attractive women, but you also can have a great jump with a fat smelly older guy.

I didn't get my rating to dry hump tandem students!

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
=P

[ryoder 1,384]

ZigZagMarquis

Their girlfriends and wives kick them really really hard in the nuts before they head to the DZ every morning.

I knew of a DZ that took a bunch of strippers on nude tandems one day.
I heard there were a *lot* of issues between the TI's and their SO's over it.

Sadly, this event happened before I started jumping there.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[normiss 622]

My first paying customer was a stripper.
Boy howdy.

[swisschris62 0]

She tip you with a fist full of "lucky bucks"?

[linebckr83 3]

DougH

***I only have 2000 tandems but I have never gotten an erection from taking someone on a tandem. Like others have said be both a professional and an adult about what you are doing.

No kidding. We have a job to do, I have other things to focus on.

And don't get me wrong, we like taking young small attractive women, but you also can have a great jump with a fat smelly older guy.

I didn't get my rating to dry hump tandem students!

I've never had one either. They're fun to look at on the ground, but as soon as we start getting hooked up its all business and I pretty much seem to forget what they look like. Too many other things to focus on.

Once we land it's time to play my A-game and get phone numbers off the waiver

Happy to join the creeper list!

"Are you coming to the party?
Oh I'm coming, but I won't be there!"
Flying Hellfish #828
Dudist #52

[Di0 1]

quade

And people sometimes call me a buzz kill.

Here is a guy who has just done what he thinks is the most awesome, macho and brave thing anybody can do and you then tell him he enjoyed having a gay dude strapped to his back with a stiffie.

Okay, yeah, that probably would be fun to see.

LoL.
Well, forum jokes aside, making a straight guy uncomfortable stressing the sexual orientation of the TI, would be as wrong as a male TI making a female student uncomfortable with an inappropriate behavior or sexual references all the times.

It's a job. And a fairly important one: you have to take care of somebody's life, sex as nothing to do with it.
Professionalism is the way and if a "spontaneous and uncontrollable reaction of your body" happens... well... hopefully nobody will make a big deal out of it. I guess while in freefall, the student will be too overloaded to notice anyway (or blame it on the adrenaline lol) and under canopy, push away with you hips a little and you'll be fine.

Bottom line, of the 1000 serious problems a TI might face, this is really not one of them, I think.

I'm standing on the edge
With a vision in my head
My body screams release me
My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

[quade 3]

Agreed.

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The World's Most Boring Skydiver