You've been a skydiver for a while if...

[chuckakers 370]

...you remember jumpers moving up to the front of Beech 18's and DC-3's for takeoff. I can remember standing up between seated jumpers for takeoff and climb-out to keep CG forward on those planes, with the back third of the plane empty. We'd hit 1500 feet and the pilot would give the "all clear" to go your seat.

Of course, back then it wasn't dangerous.

Your turn - you've been a skydiver for a while if.....

Chuck Akers
D-10855
Houston, TX

[shropshire 0]

... you've strapped a reserve on your front for a sport jump.


... when the only tandem that you'd heard of was a bicycle!!

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[fastphil 0]

...you remember checking to make sure your parachute was perfectly round after opening.

[JohnRich 4]

...you actually look out the door at the ground to spot.

[Baksteen 84]

Square = Scare

"That formation-stuff in freefall is just fun and games but with an open parachute it's starting to sound like, you know, an extreme sport."
~mom

[airtwardo 6]

The only 'string' you can find in the house is gutted green 550.

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[jimmytavino 16]

.....you "used to have" a savings account...

jmy

[CazmoDee 3]

It was called "freak flyn'".

I'm behind the bar at Sloppy Joe's....See ya in the Keys!

Muff 4313

[beowulf 1]

when you remember routinely using wind drift indicators.

That's way before my time.

[bozo 0]

......if your first few reserve rides went to the cadence of ......LOOK.......PULL......PUNCH !

bozo
Pain is fleeting. Glory lasts forever. Chicks dig scars.

[shropshire 0]

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.....you "used to have" a savings account...

jmy

.... and at least 1 ex-wife

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[shropshire 0]

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when you remember routinely using making wind drift indicators.

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(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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[Guru312 0]

...you brought your girlfriend to the DZ to hold tension.

...you wore coveralls to make a jump rather than to work under your car.

...you pulled a sleeve over your canopy before putting it into the container.

...you were thrilled to see someone in freefall.

...you were glad to have whuffos on the DZ because they chased sleeves, went for coffee and brought back dropped ripcords.

Guru312

I am not DB Cooper

[fastphil 0]

...your pilot chute had a slinky inside it.

[jacketsdb23 45]

D license holders (200 + jumps) were "downsizing" to a "fast" sabre 190.

ok, so not as far back as some of the others.

Losers make excuses, Winners make it happen
God is Good
Beer is Great
Swoopers are crazy.

[jimmytavino 16]

you know what bungees are. and how to correctly use and secure them. and also how to NOT connect them... (can anyone say "total" )

you realize that B 4,, has nothing to do with bingo...
you still have a pair of PARA-BOOTS, kicking around , somewhere in a closet.

you skydived with a BELL motorcycle helmet, WITH your NAME stenciled on the forehead...

You had your name on a label, sewn onto the pin cover flap of your 24' flat circular.

You KNow what a 24' flat circular IS...

you recall when "a cheapo", did NOT mean someone, who fails to buy his/her case of beer,,, when it's required...


square..... meant an "uncool Daddio"

you remember when 'kicker plates' were FIRST introduced..AND resisted the whole idea of pilot chute launched reserves....

you know the difference between "2-shots and shot-and-a-halves"... AND you could properly assemble a set...

you used a wad of rubber band on your main ripcord, as a 'stop'...


Down wind....... was the Only way to shoot accuracy...

lift tickets were 'a buck a thousand'

You thought that a POD was a 'revolutionary state of the art' improvement in gear...

3 ring circus,, was where you took the kids, on a rainy saturday...

you could buy a Hop & pop for 3 bucks

A "3 pin Pioneer" was THE hot set up...

the term "whuffo" had not yet been invented

twin engine... meant your DZ had TWO cessnas



jmy
uspa 9452
a 3914

[airtwardo 6]

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...you brought your girlfriend to the DZ to hold tension.

...you wore coveralls to make a jump rather than to work under your car.

...you pulled a sleeve over your canopy before putting it into the container.

...you were thrilled to see someone in freefall.

...you were glad to have whuffos on the DZ because they chased sleeves, went for coffee and brought back dropped ripcords.

Holdin' tension


'OPEN' landing area...



DOWNWIND accuri!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[jimjumper 25]

You upgraded your main container from cones to loops.

Your first jump course took 6 hours and didn't include cutaway training.

If you ever have borrowed a reserve.

The first piece of equipment you bought was a hockey helmet.

You landed your first square jumps in half brakes because "it lands just like a round that way"

Your chest mount had an altimeter and a stop watch. (This one is real old. I only had an altimeter on mine)

You bought copies of "United We Fall", "The Art of Freefall Relative Work", and "Skies Call" while they were still being published.

[pchapman 261]

... you knew that having cool colours on your rig and canopy required dye and a laundry tub.

... you knew that the way to get a really hot canopy was with a pair of scissors.

... you had a pair of frenchies.

... you dearched before cutting away

[JerryBaumchen 1,048]

. . . you put a load of students out first on rounds because you were out of WDI's.

JerryBaumchen

PS) JimmyTavino & Twardo: You are RIGHT ON.

[millertime24 8]

You have uttered the phrase:

"Round is sound. Square if you dare."

(Ok so Im new myself but ive heard stories)

Muff #5048

[howardwhite 5]

...you've been on a DC-3 load with Jacques Istel.

HW

[Tuna-Salad 0]

If you have tried to hold a bed sheet over your head and jump off the roof of the house atleast once during childhood.

Millions of my potential children died on your daughters' face last night.

[Andy9o8 0]

...you wore a hockey helmet because you were a skygod.

...a skygod was defined as someone with over 300 jumps.

...at 50 jumps the DZO would let you jumpmaster students and get a "free jump" (from 2,500).

[SkyjunkySean 0]

and a house n dog.....add others nouns (here)