Hallur

If its something you are determit to do, you will do it. Everbody is afraid in the start. So it is a quistion off do you want to expirience the freedom of human flight or not. When I jumped my first AFF I told my instructors that if I would chicken out in the door they should just take me out with them, that wasnt neccesery but I was serious about wanting to jump. Hope this helps. Good luck

I looked at all your pics snow1 and 2, and those pictures are amazing.

Hello there. me like thong

those pictures where just beutifull. It hasnt started snowing here in Iceland yet but it probably will soon..

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I've never seen minimums for the Stiletto (haven't even looked) but I can say from firsthand experience that a 1:1 loaded Stiletto is dangerously unstable in turbulence. 1.26 to 1 as a minimum is probably a good guideline.

If it is dangerous for a stiletto to be loaded at 1:1 or under, why does the PD website recomend a wingloading like 0.8:1 for intem. on a 190 sqft. Just a thought...

Hi to you too....Welcome

Hi im Hallur, hope you recover soon from your injury so you can finish your skydive training, welcome to the new world, where we just have fun and dont worry.

Here are some pics from 2002

hi Smiles, We have a little group of around 25-40 aktive jumpers here in Iceland, but the last two years have been kinda slow, I just move back home from Denmark so im doing all I can to help our club getting out of the financial problems we are in. The reason is that the new people that took over the manegment did a terrible job and the club went from easy street to the stress we have to day. Its maybe not as bad as I make it sound but its sure no fun being afraid of if the club is going to survive.
Its probably some different jumping in Iceland then many other places, we have Cesna-206 jumpplane but we dont have any dropzone that we can call our own, but instead we have veriety of places to jump at, most of the time we jump weekdays at a small airport called Sandskeid wich is only a 15 min. drive east from Reykjavik(capital) were the Glider pilots have thier place and they let us use it as we want but there is no facilities we can use only a corner beside the landingstrip were we can land and pack our chutes, and theres also a 850 foot high mountain standing beside the airport, and thats o.k. if the wind isnt blowing from south-east, there are some serrious turbolence that can come of that thing. We also jump at Hella in weekends and there we have a nice big house with toilets,kitcen, sofas and tables and there a big hanger we use if theres alot of people. Thats a very good place to jump at, when you jump you can see glaciers, mountains and the famous Vestman-islands.Hella is nice and it takes about 2 hours to drive to Hella from Reykjavik. The good thing about all of this that if the weather is bad at Sandskeid we can just make the pilot throw us out over Mosfellsbaer wich is a town North of Reykjavik(15 min drive) and they have a small private airport were we are allowed to be if we dont have any other place to jump, and its just amaxingly beutifull there, to the north of it you have a 3000 foot mountain maybe 5-7 kilometers from the airport so when your about to pull you suddenly have this feeling that the mountain is near you, to the west you have atlantic ocean where its tying to reach the landing strip. To the west it goes up hill and becomes higher and higher over sealevel the higher you look where it then end in smaill mountains and lava. And finelly to the south you have Reykjavik. We also jump at Selfoss wich is a 30 min. drive from Reykjavik to the east, there we have to watch out for the freezing cold water of the glacier river called Ölfusá, infamous for taking peoples lives when they fall in it. The water is like light green-white and has a very stong current.
On sunny days it is amazing how far you can see over the country when in freefall because of the clear air. If you ever visit Iceland you will not regret it the nature is just wonderfull.

p.s. smiles if you want a postcard send me the address in my e-mail, im headding to florida in two weeks and Ill be there for a month, maybe I could take the postcard with me and send it from there, it takes weeks for mail to travel from here to the USA

Hey Brian you could come to our next boogie, we rent a Antonov 28 in the summer for our boogie and its allways been great, exept maybe for one year when it was like we were scuba-diving instead of sky-diving(it rained allot)

Hi Mike, keep up the good work, 160 thats good. Welcome to our wonderfull world of skydiving.

Congrats! with your first jump.

Hey Airmail you should come visit us sometime over here, in the summer we sometimes jump after 3 am over here in the summer. There 24 hours of daylight in the summer. So sometimes if theres enough people jumping the last load could be taking off at 3 am..kewl ha.Just dont come in the winter you only get depressed, only daylight for a few hours....blue skie

Thanks for complementing my country. How do you like Bjork, do you like her music. If your interested I could send you a post card with some famous landscape fotoes of Iceland on, ive already sent postcards before to two members of dropzone.com, they both asked me because they collect them. Just a thought.

They are back! Im afraid.....I want my mommy ups did I really say that...no no cant be

We should ask sangiro if would make special forum for the secret service, then they could feel right at home like we do.

He sure did

Im pretty sure they will be waiting for you when you get home, after your brilliant remark about all the guest being from the secret service yhea well 3min. later 1300 guest logged of, what does that tell you

Hey they got spooked, theres only about 800 left,

let me refraise that 200 left.

Good point. Lets all hide before they catch us

Thats second time in a row that i click on whoes online, and there are over 1400 guests. It used to be around 15-40 if im not mistaking, know thier in the hundreds.

Practice your body position on the floor in front of a mirror, remember to point your toes and press down, if your legs are flapping when jumping you dont press down enough . Be all relaxed lying on your stomach on the floor in front of the mirror, change from just lying there to the right bodyposition(the box) over and over again. Do it 20-30 times. Then your muscels remember what to do when in jump.

Skydive U is said to be much harder, but both the coach course at SU and USPA are entery points to become an instructor, SU costs 400 but uspa around 150-200 D. Hope this helps

The loading for the intmi. on a stiletto 190 is 0.8 and not 1.2 the chart that Quade linked from PD says that, and it dosnt say any thing about minimum only VLC.

Hi man good luck on your license