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Buy/finance a Piper Tri-Pacer (many under $20K on barnstormers.com), get your license in said Tri-Pacer, go where there are Super Twin Otters. Love. Fly. Repeat.

The corneal flap is like a thin coat of skin orver the cornea and must re-grow to the "skin" that was not cut. I had my LASIK done by Dr. Joel Shugar (RIP) an active skydiver. He told me two to four weeks and to wear goggles on the two week range (to reduce dust/air). I had mine done in the winter so I ended up waiting longer anyway. As stated here, the best money I ever spent!

I agree! At 55 I am trying to get into night law school (currently a CPA) to increase my income far enough and long enough to intergrate my love of photography, water, and air! Since I met my wife on her 40th birthday (14 years ago) she started jumping and to intergrate her love of air and water she went back to school to get her A&P so she could spec build and,or repair ("flip") airplanes to subsidize jumping, soaring, aerobatics, and sailing. Well.... 2008/9 hit us pretty hard but we were able not loose everything. She went back to school AGAIN and is halfway through a Doctorate in Physical Therapy to try to have a steady well paying job into the later years as well. Our "plan" is to get back to "jumping out of airplanes" as well as integrate our other activities of building and flying airplanes, soaring, sailing, photography, motorcycles, etc. during half the weekend and jumping the other half. May not work, but the dream of being able to continue until our untimely death at age 95 keeps us and the relationship going... I constantly stop by Skydive AZ and ask myself, "what if we just lived in a trailer and jumped for a living?" Well, anyone who has tried will tell you it is ultimately unsustainable. Unfortunately too, is making just enough to keep your head above water. No matter what you do, there is always somebody younger that doesn't have infrastructure costs (yet) that will do it cheaper. Health care costs will always be there and have to be planned for. We believe integrating our interests keeps us interested in all of them. Besides that, I do like the intellectual challenge of a professional job. I don't want to give it up for skydiving, nor do I want to give up skydiving, sailing, soaring, dirt bike riding, photography, or aerobatics for the job. So I agree, just because you don't see me at the dropzone doesn't mean I "quit". I just haven't let go of an airplane in flight lately...

As a camera guy, the one of the first pieces of advice I received from some guys who used to jump VERY heavy head gear was to always look at the horizon. Anytime I did not, it hurt. The "slow fall" position is suggested in the instructional film "Cutaway" (not the feature length movie with Tom Berringer - which is also worth watching btw). By bringing your shoulders down and almost starting the transition to the ultimate seating position, you also help yourself in the case of a potential chest strap misroute (not that it has ever happened to me while rushing to make a "hot load" with the second rig )

My understanding is Todd Love's harness was designed for "no legs" tandem. I believe this harness was also used for Joseph Grbianowski's tandem jumps. Both are A licensed (or close) jumpers jumping at Skydive AZ. Axis flight school should be able to give you all the details.