schattenjaeger

My hands hurt, and I was a bit humbled when my teacher got another parachute half-packed in the time it took me to get the main pin through the closing loop. Though I was having surprising trouble getting that pin to go >_<

Judging from his last sentence, I think he wasn't being serious, but making a point about abusing stats...

Stick it all on a credit card and don't think about it

Hmm, that would've been just a bit left of my nose...eep

I didn't hear about this guy, could someone fill me in?

I had a minor line twist my verrrry first jump! Just my luck I spose:) (or poor body position, one or the other)

Hahah, well in all honesty I kinda skimmed this topic and your post caught my eye and I read it outta context, so yah, consider the sarcasm missed

Why go so fucking slow on a big canopy when you can rip a fat-nasty 270 and drop out of the sky going 70mph? I'd much rather go fast. Why would you want to fly on your belly and try to accomplish something that has been going along well for the past 30+ years, when you can work hard and pioneer the cutting edge of the sport that didn't really get its true start until the mid 1990s? 'cuz they like it.

I, like many people I've talked to, felt it my first time, and haven't felt it since. I think lots of people trick themselves into feeling it when they really don't, 'cuz they expect it so much. And who was the guy who said it goes from windy to silent? From my experince it's gone from the loudness of the plane and the wind outside the plane to just really loud wind:)

*takes notes* "beer...beer...and when in doubt, more beer!"

I'm about 5'5 and 130 pounds, so I have to wear THE tightest jumpsuit ever. Period. And then that gets my fallrate to about 115

I'm just like kelpdiver, 0 and 4, but all of them were nice soft landings, just when I touched down all my weight was behind me(plus that parachute suddenly goes from being above you and holding you up to behind you weighing you down)

Yah, but isn't 20Gs not much better than hitting the ground anyways?

Upon closer examination (i.e. ctrl + fing for "tandem")I've determined that my ability to read and comprehend has been compromised. Solution: Skydive more

It's not the harness, it's something about the whole tandem thing that the USPA something something. It was somewhere in the SIM, I remember!

Humans start blacking out anywhere over 4 Gs(that number gets higher for different people, fighter pilots for example, have a higher tolerance)rollercoasters probably hang around the 4 G or less, maybe occasionaly poking up to 5 or so for a second. Sustained 4-5Gs will black you out pretty quick, but roller coasters don't sustain them. If you have a hard opening, you'll only be feeling those Gs for an INSTANT, but think about it. 120-15 in under a second. Yowch

Tandem harnesses aren't USPA certified or some such thing like that...it's in the SIM somewhere

Umm...they go up a split second when the chute catches ya, and if something malfunctions and you get locked in a spin, you'll pull a few. Beyond that, they're negligble. Roller coasters drop you, and while still accelerating pull up suddenly, and then while going up, will crest hills and go down again(give you negative g's)and make high speed tight turns.

It IS legal for minors over 16 to jump with notarized parental consent, but it is entirely at the discretion of any DZ whether or not they'll allow it. So if they want to, they can, but they don't HAVE to. Plus his parents might just not want him too.

I wonder if the reserve JM even knew what the devil was going on. For all he knows Lutz pulled his parachute, and all of a sudden he gets yanked outta his arms and the main side JM seems quite perturbed for some reason. And like someone else said, if they both went after him, they risked a collision(2 people going reallllly fast aiming for the same target, remember?)and the main JM, knowing what was happening, had the head start.

Yah, I only have three jumps, and I felt fine right after each one of them, but the next day I was sore in all the areas you mentioned, though it's gradually getting better each successive jump. Just like my ears in fact, after my first jump I couldn't hear crap 'till I was on the road home, the third time I was good to go after a few minutes. I guess you just get acclimated to it steadily

You know, I do a similar thing in my car. I'm always checking to make sure it's in gear, while I'm driving...I bet I would have the same tendency with the container, but I'm jumping big 'ol student gear right now

hehe, "Hold my beer and watch this!"

Hey skybabe, how'd that double mal work out?

I think that was one of the more reassuring things I heard during my first jump course, was when my instructor mentioned he had 2 cutaways in about 8000 jumps, the first one coming around 4200.