JulianoFanelli 0 #326 September 4, 2007 a friend of mine asked me once if we fall right after we exit the plane or if we float for a while.. i had to get some air after laughing a lot and finally explaining her what happens when u jump out of a plane and what happens when u take a space shuttle and get to Earth`s orbit.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jazzthieve 0 #327 September 4, 2007 Quote Mate you obviously have a chip on your shoulder about the Military, could you not pass basic training or something ? BTW it was a civilian recruiter that told me the bullshit about the teeth. BTW It was a major from the para troopers that told me that mate Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bot403 0 #328 October 30, 2007 Quote Quote I heard of a spectator riding the tour wagon at Quincy one year ask "What do skydivers eat?" usually the small children the villagers leave at dropzones for us so we dont wander into town and disturb the peaceWink 2-3 guys take a big net on the plane and jump through clouds capturing carebears for the barbecue + beer later. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smokejmprwannab 0 #329 October 30, 2007 whuffo: How high are you when you jump out? Me: It's normally best to be sober when you jump. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VTmotoMike08 0 #330 October 30, 2007 Today I was wearing a skyventure shirt and a whuffo commented: "Indoor skydiving, huh? That must be a really huge building!" Ya, he was joking and knew what the wind tunnel is but I still thought it was funny. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EvilEagle 0 #331 October 30, 2007 Quote I was told during my Basic Training in the Army that i could not be a paratrooper because i had fillings in my teeth that would explode at altitide............ It still hasn't happened I'm a USAF pilot, all of our dental work has to be checked to make sure there isn't any trapped air behind it. Not a big deal until you get a decompression at high altitude. That wouldn't be fun. It can happen though. I've also never had problems with my fillings. Lots of similar questions from non-fliers at airshows. (and at my DZ) My favorite is when they ask me how many times we have to eject in training. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ether 0 #332 October 31, 2007 Quote Today I was wearing a skyventure shirt and a whuffo commented: "Indoor skydiving, huh? That must be a really huge building!" There have in fact been indoor BASE jumps... Looking for newbie rig, all components... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
imthegerm 0 #333 October 31, 2007 I just got a question today at work, this guy asked me if skydivers were afraid to jump through clouds because they might drown! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gdmusumeci 0 #334 October 31, 2007 Once upon a time I foolishly went to a local boogie two days after having a root canal. There was some air trapped beneath the temporary filling. I still made three jumps, but boy was I glad to get out of that airplane.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jon26 0 #335 October 31, 2007 An old flatmate of mine who is always determined to talk others down to boost his own ego said to me "It looks like it'd get boring really quick. All you're doing is falling. I mean, How much fun can it be?" I found that funny. It's a shame that he'll never find out the answer. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kkeenan 13 #336 October 31, 2007 Quote... That must be a really huge building!" ... We have a building where I work that could easily accommodate indoor BASE jumps... http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/vab.html_____________________________________ Dude, you are so awesome... Can I be on your ash jump ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GreyLake 0 #337 November 7, 2007 From a would-be tandem, (after I've explained the various altitudes he can jump from, and the various rough durations of freefall, in seconds [several times]): "You mean there are no jumps that'll get me, like, an hour of freefall?" He was utterly serious, and disappointed when I explained that there were no such jumps. He says "Is it 'cause a', like, oxygen, or something? . . ." Hmm.Let's go to candy mountain. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
andm31 0 #338 November 8, 2007 Quote This has happened to me 2 or 3 times now: The skydivers that just landed walk to the van. We walk past some watching whuffo's. I am one of the last ones. I pass said whuffo's, with my canopy hanging over my shoulder, they go: Did YOU just jump outta a plane??!! Isn't this a good response: - No, some idiot pushed me! (just to see their expressions) Blue skies! Anders Samuelsson www.anderssamuelsson.se Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
andm31 0 #339 November 8, 2007 Quote But he kept saying he jumped...I don't mind..let him. But I don't understand why someone would tell a lie like that and, even when being confronted with it, just keep ignoring the fact that everyone knows your lying..kinda sad.. If you repeat a lie enough times it will turn into the truth, at least to the one that tells them, you can actually try it yourself, with a small experiment, make up a small lie about something, and then repeat it many times over a long time period and you will start to believe it really happened, isn't the human mind incredible Blue skies! Anders Samuelsson www.anderssamuelsson.se Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chipiematt 0 #340 November 8, 2007 after just passing my AFF i had alot of freinds asking 'does that mean i can be strapped to you and skydive now????' ..........er...no!!!!!!did you say tequila??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chipiematt 0 #341 November 8, 2007 you must of been asked the classic?????????? 'how come you go back up when the chute opens??'did you say tequila??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
andm31 0 #342 November 8, 2007 Quote I was hanging around the hanger after doing 2 of my jumps to get my a license and heard a guy ask my instructor what do you do when you jump out of the plane and hit a cloud, and my instructor with a straight face said to him we just run as fast as we can and jump off the other side and the guy said oh I guess that makes sense and walked away. I was just standing there with total amazement that they could believe such an answer. Something similar happened at our dropzone, a tandem pax asked one of the other skydivers what happens if you get clouds caught in your chute and the skydiver looked at him, not even smiling and said: clouds in your canapy is a malfunction and then we cut our main and deploy our reserve. The rest of us pretty much died from laughter! Blue skies! Anders Samuelsson www.anderssamuelsson.se Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
marcusr 0 #343 November 8, 2007 Quote Quote Whuffo: What do you do if the second one does not open? Me: Start to walk to the white light. The answer could also be: " you have 10 seconds to learn how to fly.." I usually just answer: You wait. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jaker 0 #344 November 8, 2007 OK. I've completed one measly tandem jump thus far, so maybe i'm a wuffo myslef... Admittedly, most of these are pretty damn ridiculous! However, I can understand how someone could assume that you actually fly upward when the chute is deployed if all they had watched were videos. Hell, it FELT like i was shooting up into the air as well! (Though I of course knew that I wasn't!) Gotta love the pointy end of the raindrops though! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leslie1618 0 #345 November 9, 2007 A coworker of mine thought that freeflying involved going upward for a period of time during the dive. I guess he figured that body control wouldn't be possible while falling! He was totally serious. I just nodded and said, "ummm...yeah that's right."I tried to get a grip on reality, but it moved. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SivaGanesha 2 #346 November 10, 2007 Quote Y'all probably heard a lot of questions from whuffos, please share if you have a funny one..This is the most 'whuffo' question I've ever heard, a friend of mine once asked, 'can you feel the wind in freefall ?' (And he didn't mean the relative wind, but the actual wind up there) How whuffo is that ? The one I seem to get a lot these days is some variant of: "Whuffo you jump out of those airplanes more than once?" It isn't phrased quite like that, of course, but the basic idea is that I think many whuffos probably know someone who claims to have done a tandem, so they can sort of understand doing one, and only one, tandem just to "find out what it is like". But they simply cannot imagine why anyone would ever want to jump out of a plane more than once let alone dozens, hundreds, or thousands of times. An example would be one whuffo friend of mine who has a bit of a weight problem--I don't think he ever met a bacon cheeseburger he didn't like. He came to the DZ once to do a tandem, but he was over the DZ's maximum weight for tandem students, so he was turned away. He then told everyone I knew that, yes, he had been too heavy to jump, but having been to the DZ (and not even having jumped!), he was qualified to say that anyone who jumps more than once is "obviously stuck" and "has nothing going on in their life". Obviously I am not the most experienced skydiver in the world, but I obviously have a lot more experience than him--he was just trying to tear down what I did because he couldn't do it himself."It's hard to have fun at 4-way unless your whole team gets down to the ground safely to do it again!"--Northern California Skydiving League re USPA Safety Day, March 8, 2014 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 6 #347 November 10, 2007 he was qualified to say that anyone who jumps more than once is "obviously stuck" and "has nothing going on in their life". Quote Had a relative ask me a few weeks ago 'why' I have done 3000 jumps...."all I can afford" was my answer. ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites SivaGanesha 2 #348 November 10, 2007 Quote I was at school talking to a guy who was talking about suicides (dunno why, he's quite weird i gotta say) and he INSISTED that as a human if you decide to jump off a building you instantly die because of the freefall. He said you'd have a heart attack before you even touched the ground. I tend to get that one, or some variant, a lot too. Funny thing is that it always seems to be presented to me as a good thing--like they think they are confiding some good news in me to brighten up my otherwise miserable day As in, they say, in the sort of somber tone you might use at a funeral, that they "take a lot of comfort from" the alleged fact that I will have a "mercifully painless death" since I am allegedly going to die in freefall before having to suffer the pain of bouncing."It's hard to have fun at 4-way unless your whole team gets down to the ground safely to do it again!"--Northern California Skydiving League re USPA Safety Day, March 8, 2014 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites rygon 0 #349 November 11, 2007 lol my family think im going through a "phase" of depression and low self esteem because Im trying to kill myself by jumping. a memorable quote by my mum was "youve done 10 jumps...havent you got it out of your system yet. Why dont you try golf with me and your dad instead" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites airtwardo 6 #350 November 11, 2007 "youve done 10 jumps...havent you got it out of your system yet. Why dont you try golf with me and your dad instead" Quote Classic! Hang in there...it gets even better, as ya already know! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Prev 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next Page 14 of 17 Join the conversation You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Reply to this topic... × Pasted as rich text. Paste as plain text instead Only 75 emoji are allowed. × Your link has been automatically embedded. Display as a link instead × Your previous content has been restored. Clear editor × You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL. Insert image from URL × Desktop Tablet Phone Submit Reply 0
SivaGanesha 2 #348 November 10, 2007 Quote I was at school talking to a guy who was talking about suicides (dunno why, he's quite weird i gotta say) and he INSISTED that as a human if you decide to jump off a building you instantly die because of the freefall. He said you'd have a heart attack before you even touched the ground. I tend to get that one, or some variant, a lot too. Funny thing is that it always seems to be presented to me as a good thing--like they think they are confiding some good news in me to brighten up my otherwise miserable day As in, they say, in the sort of somber tone you might use at a funeral, that they "take a lot of comfort from" the alleged fact that I will have a "mercifully painless death" since I am allegedly going to die in freefall before having to suffer the pain of bouncing."It's hard to have fun at 4-way unless your whole team gets down to the ground safely to do it again!"--Northern California Skydiving League re USPA Safety Day, March 8, 2014 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rygon 0 #349 November 11, 2007 lol my family think im going through a "phase" of depression and low self esteem because Im trying to kill myself by jumping. a memorable quote by my mum was "youve done 10 jumps...havent you got it out of your system yet. Why dont you try golf with me and your dad instead" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 6 #350 November 11, 2007 "youve done 10 jumps...havent you got it out of your system yet. Why dont you try golf with me and your dad instead" Quote Classic! Hang in there...it gets even better, as ya already know! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
