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dkf1979

Can we get the cessna to do this?

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wow now that would be fun to know how to do
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Ok, now here's the question -- you've seen the video and clearly he's a professional pilot doing amazing things and I think it's pretty obvious that you'd have to be freekin' nuts to think you could hop into a plane and just do this without special training and thousands of hours devoted to learning how to do this.

How do you feel about swooping?
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The World's Most Boring Skydiver

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...think you could hop into a plane and just do this without special training and thousands of hours devoted to learning how to do this.

How do you feel about swooping?



Come now man...surely you jest. Anyone of use could hop in a plane and do this from day one....as for swooping...I am sure we'll all be ok if we just fly conservatively...:S

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Ok, now here's the question -- you've seen the video and clearly he's a professional pilot doing amazing things and I think it's pretty obvious that you'd have to be freekin' nuts to think you could hop into a plane and just do this without special training and thousands of hours devoted to learning how to do this.

How do you feel about swooping?



I need a smaller canopy.:S

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Mike is a helluva guy and great pilot..and a pretty good golfer. He told me a while back that the balance is so edgy on that plane that he has to switch tanks every 15 minutes when he's ferrying it. I guess that's the only time that it carries a full fuel load.

Another guy, Gary Ward, that was one of the Pitts pilots at WFFC is the only performer to scare me with his routine-check him out if you get a chance.
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Ok, now here's the question -- you've seen the video and clearly he's a professional pilot doing amazing things and I think it's pretty obvious that you'd have to be freekin' nuts to think you could hop into a plane and just do this without special training and thousands of hours devoted to learning how to do this.

How do you feel about swooping?



The same as if I wanted to learn how to fly like that -

Have someone teach you and watch you - read what you can on it - talk to others that know how to do it - and accept the risk if that is what you want to do.
I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
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Good, that's my point entirely.

I'm just not so sure that everyone always sees the difference. We're around (or at least I am) some of the world's best swoopers and I think that some folks just see it as a natural progression. AFF, A, B, C, D, Swoop. I don't think it is. I see swooping as something that goes far above and beyond what is "normal" in skydiving and I hope that we can start to show people that unless you're willing to devote time, money and effort into instruction and currency -- you probably have no business doing it.
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