HaroldBoyles

Noob question here. Let me just put it out there I will be jumping an AAD for a while after I get my license and my own gear, plus my DZ requires them. No doubt there's a need for students to have an AAD with sensory overload and freezing up during stress. But after the sensory overload is over and one can make rational decisions, wouldn't an AAD just mentally give someone insurance to do ballzier stuff in the air knowing "hey, the AAD will save my ass if I mess up". Would not having an AAD make a person be more careful of what they decide to do on a jump and not get too low? Therefore breeding safer jumpers? I ask because I BMX (two totally different sports with different outcomes if one messes up). From my experience BMXing, when I wear a helmet my balls get bigger and try stuff that I would not normally try. With a helmet I get hurt a lot more than when I don't wear one. When I don't wear a helmet Im forced to take baby steps to get to the big jumps Ill do with a helmet. Which makes me a safer biker, and I learn how to take those steps responsibly without being reckless. So would skydiving without an AAD (eventually) make someone learn how to be safer rather than going big with a mental attitude that the AAD will save you, making you a better decision maker? Just asking if there's a correlation with an AAD/going big when your not ready vs. I don't have an AAD/Im not ready to go big yet so Ill learn more before I do. Via having a saftey net or not having one. Fiber chews.

Hi Im. Anyway, 13 jumps so far and Im really. Im looking foward to jumping with people rather than an instructor (no offence) or by myself. Well, that's about. Can't wait to see where this sport. Tootles. Oh, started a poll. Please vote. Thank. Fiber chews.