Got my Tandem Rating!

[SniperCJ 0]

Yee haw! Finished up today and faxed in all the USPA paperwork.

Haul that meat baybee!

JC

[AggieDave 6]

KickAss! I assume you got Strong rated since you're at SD Dallas, right?

You'll definately love working with tandem students, its very fullfilling.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[sducoach 0]

Congrats!!!!

I'm gonna tell your wife!!!!!!

Now instead of filming all the cuties you get to strap yourself to them!

Blues,

J.E.

James 4:8

[SniperCJ 0]

Ya, Strong rating.

Jump 10 was interesting. Very experienced guy at our DZ was being a bit 'problematic' during the skydive.

Got a nice bruise from the drogue going around my leg...

[bodypilot1 0]

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Got a nice bruise from the drogue going around my leg...

And they gave your your rating after throwing the drouge unstable?

Who was your Tandem Examiner?

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[nightjumps 1]

Congratulations, SJ!!!!!! I'll bet I can guess who gave ya the hell on the hell dive....

Keith

[jdfreefly 1]

Best advice I ever got, was to go around and ask every Tandem instructor for their "holly shit" story. Every one who has been doing it for a while will have one. These can be invaluable lessons that others have learned that you should not have to re-learn the hard way!

I have yet to hear one where the instructor was not the source of the problem. Usually due to a lack of following procedures, ie - not doing a proper handles check once the drogue was out.

Mine was carelessness near the door:
I tried to swing on the bar above the door of the skyvan, I didn't clear the floor and the rig hit hard as we dropped out of the plane. The rig was pushed up my back and whacked me in the back of the head. This slammed my face into the students head breaking my nose, giving me a concusion and nearly knocking me out cold. Not the most ideal conditions for an exit. Things were going gray and the thought entered my head that I was about to black out. A very loud voice in my head said, "NO DROGUE = NO MAIN!" . I pitched the drogue. Adrenalin kicked in and I did not black out. Aside from having a hard time reading my altimeter due to my tearing eyes and my goggles being coated with blood, the rest of the skydive was uneventfull.

lesson: On any skydive the door is a very dangerous place, even more so on a tandem.

Be safe and have fun.

Methane Freefly - got stink?

[FlyinseivLP2 0]

I'm with bodypilot1 on this one! Why did you pass if you tossed the drouge unstable. Kind of sounds like you thought that was cool. Sounds to me maybe you shouldn't be taking passengers yet.
Good luck.

[Mad47 0]

Congratulations, John!

[lifewithoutanet 0]

First: Congratulations!

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Jump 10 was interesting. Very experienced guy at our DZ was being a bit 'problematic' during the skydive.

Get it on video? One of the guys at my old DZ was finishing up his rating and my AFF instructor flew as a passenger. He was a little "problematic", too, and it was fcuking hilarious. We watched that vid' again and again and again.

-C.

[Reginald 0]

Congrats! I got a kick out of watching you haul Ernie around a week or so ago. It's funny to see a guy with 9,000 jumps going for a tandem ride.

It will be great to have an additional TM at the DZ.

Ron

"We've been looking for the enemy for some time now. We've finally found him. We're surrounded. That simplifies things." CP