flightmonkey

Interesting approach.. Sounds like a good way to get your foot in the door of the sport. I'd rather spend money on jumps and beer than gas and beer though for the time being at least.

Hey guys, just started checking these forums out, figured it was time to join in! I'll be 21 this June, currently studying New Media at the University of Maine, mostly interested in videography and photography, (besides skydiving) and drumming! Got my A license at Skydive New England last summer, totally hooked on the sport to say the least. Only have 35 jumps right now, but I got lucky and scored myself an internship at the DZ for the summer doing social media marketing and the like, so I'll be jumping as much as I can afford! In the hunt for my first rig and other gear right now. Hoping to someday work as an arial videographer/photographer. With any luck I'll be throwing together gnarly edits and helping people show off their skills in just a few years! Would love any advice in reaching these goals, Blue skies! -Nate

On my first coach jump (#10), I lost altitude awareness and pulled about 1000 ft low. Decided I wasn't going to make it back to the DZ, so I found a nice long field to land in, turned in for an upwind landing, and at that point casually noted the gazebo full of stacks of plastic chairs and folding tables, and the swimming pool taking up some valuable landing space. Needless to say, the people in the pool were not impressed when I smacked into the gazebo mid-flare, knocking over a few piles of chairs, and tangling my canopy up over the top of it (no injuries woo!). The farmer who owned the field rolled down on his tractor and told me about his visions for a world where skydivers didn't land in his (damn) fields all the time. Sorry dude! Luckily DZ some staff rolled up right then to smooth things out, nothing like a cute lady can turn an old redneck's frown upside-down that quick! My next off landing a few jumps later went much better