11AJUMPER

I sure have enjoyed learning how to enjoy jumping out of planes now that I'm jumping a ram air canopy. Airborne jumps are just no fun. I've spent a bit of time with the 82nd and although thrilling, you just dont have good landings with those rounds. The knowledge that you are about to get your ass kicked every time you jump takes the fun out of the short time under canopy.

Last night I had my first bounce dream after getting in 4 jumps yesterday... Get out of the plane and go into a sit (I havent even tried one yet) and look around and the entire load of jumpers are strung out over about a 100m space with no vertical separation. I'm thinking this is awesome, and having a good time with it, there is even a tandem that was flying around us. My audible goes off at break away altitude so I turn and track away...I wave off and go to pull when I realize that I'm not wearing my rig. I try to pull several times and then realize I'm going to need to do something quickly, so I look around and see one of those indoor tennis facilities (the ones that look like a big bubble) about 1/2 mile away. At this point I'm probably about 1500 ft up so I go into a deep track toward the tennis place and land right on it, safe and sound. I get up slide down the side and walk away. It was a really fun dream.