eyeinthesky

can you just imagine the look on the faces of both the diver and the pilot of that c-17?! if that was me diving, i think i would land it, change my underwear, take a deep breath, and start laughing my ass off thinking of the pilots face. im glad you guys told me the stories of the two military plane situations though....never thought of that. although, i still wouldnt have to. we have a military base close by but, unless theres some unforseen incident involving collisions with tanks 30 miles away.....they have no planes and we have our own spot, ,we dont use a public airport or have one close anyway. but, thinking back on it now, with our DZ being in a seriously rural area, i guess there is a possibility of maybe an incident with a crop duster, although you never see those anymore anyway....but still, good to think of the possibilities! doug hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

congrats! i just wish i could get my dad....hell, anyone....to go with me next time! doug hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

every day!? wow! we are limited to 3 days a week, in the summer, when the weather permits. that'd be so cool to have the option every day though. i guess the small market of divers here in KY only is profitable for part time DZ's though. in the summer, and before i hurt my back, i was doing one jump every clear weekend. when i get off student status soon, and it becomes cheaper, i'll do more. doug hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

i saw it here in louisville. cool short clip of a freefalling girl and a flip. any commercial with skydiving in it is cool to me, it gets the image into the brains of potential future divers! doug hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

we are far too far from commercial, or other, air traffic at our DV to serioulsy worry about anything but birds being below us at a 3000 ft exit. besides, we knew the area was clear....one jumper had gone out before me, when it was clear, then it clouded up by the second pass over the DV and we had just entered the cloud. i was watching everything from takeoff to open door anyway, since i am a human mental sponge, ,so i knew for myself there wasnt anything to hit. now, if we were jumping at the level i go to now, at 10k, with clouds below, id fight the temptation as not being worth the risk for sure. but in that one isolated 3000 ft instance i had....take your pants off and jump! hahaha....i think they also tell you not to jump through clouds because you may be exiting over an area where you dont intend to and not be able to make it back to the DZ. doug hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

i went through static line training. my last (3rd jump total) static jump, we went up, i was to be second out. first guy got out and it was all clear. we came around for my turn and it had clouded over. the instructor looked over his shoulder at the pilot?DZ owner, who shrugged his shoulders, grinned, and said "have fun!". i didnt question it....i once stood in a cloud on top of a volcano and couldnt wait to jump into one! chute opened immediately, of course, and it was the coolest thing ever to be silently floating through the thick white mist. kinda damp feeling, couldnt see anything around/above/below me except white and couldnt hear anything but my end flaps flapping. with nothing around me to percieve falling, it felt like i was literally flying or flating in a cloud. i landed and thanked the instructor for the opportunity. he cleared his throat and said, "that wasnt a cloud, that was industrial haze from the Jim Beam distillery down the road", then nudged me jokingly. illegal or not, it was cooler than shit! doug hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

i do it several times once suited up. im new to this, still a student, and the nervousness hasnt faded yet, if it ever will. i make sure everything is there, accesible, and functional once i suit up, when im lading the plane, and before i get out. when the plane is packed full of people, i ask someone just before i head for the door to look at my container and make sure a pin hasnt been pulled accidentally form being crammed next to another jumper on the ride up. call it paranoid, but i wont go out anymore without first having someone do a quicky check for something like that. but for me, at least 3 times i check things before a jump doug hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

i am a student going through static progression, having 11 jumps and in 30 sec delays. so far ( i know im junxing myself!), i have never had to repeat a jump, passing to the next jump level every time. most of the jumpers there have to repeat stuff; most every one of them. am i just lucky, or is it pretty common to breeze through it without a holdback jump? thanks! doug never let anyone in your will pack your chute! hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

i started in static progression in late august 2002, and have 11 jumps. i havent jumped since thanksgving due to a bad sled accident, hahaha. i started in bardstown KY in a little 1959 cessna packed with 3 jump students, one JM, and a pilot. im a real hands-on kinda guy, so the idea of a tandem didnt sit with me, i want to do it all myself. i have boarded 13 planes in my life and landed in two of them (jetliners), haha! doug never let anyone in your will pack your chute! hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

i kinda abruptly go from ......"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAmmmmmfffffffpppptt!" doug never let anyone in your will pack your chute! hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

my parents are kinda uneasy with me going out there and doing it, but they have always supported me in everything i have done. i tell them i went jumping over the weekend, they nervously smile and shake their heads, which amuses me further. i once wrote a paper, just for personal reasons, explaining why i chose to do some of the things i do and what in my past makes me the person i am now and make the decisions i do now. they totally understand my personality now, i think, but they still would rather i kept my butt on the ground....theyre parents, theyre supposed to worry, animal survival instincts for the family and all....try to tell them why you do it though, otherwise people tend to think we are bordering on suicide or have a death wish or something..... doug never let anyone in your will pack your chute! hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

diving is SOOOOO much less complicated though. ive not had a bad jump yet......yet doug hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

uhm, take it a step at a time, dude. you may not even like it. most do, some dont. try it first before you go setting plans to be a professional or a teacher or whatever. and remember, although its cool, dont be stupid, be safe doug never let anyone in your will pack your chute! hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

Quote I tore the ass out of the spandex shorts I was wearing. I did not notice it unitl someone asked me if I felt a breeze....as I was laying on my canopy packing it......Thankfully no video coverage now thats probably the best one! i'd have been in tears seeing that! hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

How does he deploy at that speed??? You'd think that at those speeds any normal kind of chute would blow up instantaneosly... he had 3 parachutes. it was kind of like a super tandem setup....a small chute thrwon out soon after jumping to slow down the descent. im not sure if he used two or all 3 of the chutes. look up the article on the web from the august 1960 TIME magazine, very interesting reading hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

well, diving is fun alone or with another, but sex isnt too fun alone........err, so i've heard.....i guess it depends on who youre with really. considering my ex......i can think of a whole lotta things more fun than sex! doug never let anyone in your will pack your chute hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

keep an eye on ebay. ive often wondered about some of the rigs for sale on there. seems the simplest way to make a quick buck off a stolen rig with the least chance of getting caught in it, since youre likely to anonymously sell it to a guy hundreds if not thousands of miles away. theyre obviously not going to sell them in the direct location they stole them from, theyd be recognized too easily. doug hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

i was wondering what some of your funniest jump stories are. pick the best one and tell me. i had mine at jump 5, at jump 12 this weekend, so you guys with 500 or more surely have some hilarious ones! mine was my first hop&pop, i am going through static progression. i'd done all previous jumps fine, perfectly pulling my dummy cord and was cleared to do my first real ripcord jump that day. i get to the 4000, climb out, the JM yells go. i take a deep breath and relax a second...."ive done this before, nothing new." i told myself. i let go and actually feeling freefall scared the living s#*t outta me. i was getting blown every way i could comprehend. i frantically pull the cord, and relax. a few seconds later i dont feel the familiar feel of the chute opening, and i look up and nothings there! i look in my hand and no ripcord. i even more frantically pull the cord again, making sure i had it this time, and all is well. the JM went out just after me, and when he landed, he was in tears. he described the look on my face after relaxing and realizing nothing happened as "deer in the headlights meets oh-shit-i-gotta-save-my-own-life-this-time". he laughed the rest of the day i was there and still snickers when he sees me. i can only imagine how id laugh to see it from his perspective. whats yours? doug never let anyone in your will pack your chute! hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

the only rednecks here in kentucky are the kentucky fans! go cards! doug hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

haha! now that'd be funny to see from the point of view of a stranger seeing you two! hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

thanks! my computer piloting skills are almost as good as my landing accuracy.... doug never let anyone in your will pack your chute! hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

skymama, i clicked your link you gave me but dont see how to find the other 38 registered KY jumpers....can you give a clue to the computer illiterate? hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

i'm kinda new to the sport, 11 jumps through static progression. I'm having a ball with it, but would like to meet people in my region who jump too. Once my back gts better from the crazy sledding accident.....i'll be back out there! I jump at bardstown Ky, just south of louisville. doug hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

2 or 4, if youre anything like me, you'll want the majority of the container color to be black, since most of the rigs i jump come back dirt brown. hahaha doug never let anyone in your will pack your chute! hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!

i am an 11 jump student who does everything pretty well except landing, haha. i always miss the target badly and i used to land on my ass in a Wiley Coyote style land job until i figured out i needed to flare sooner. i may have fractured my butt bone but i rarely notice it and i learned quickly how to soften my landings as a result. other than that, the landings havent been remotely close to dangerous levels of impact, and i jump the big 288 manta. enjoy! never let anyone in your will pack your chute! hey, i was stupid before stupid was cool!