Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "National Geographic"
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Why take a plane when all he needed to do was punch the ground? xD
Anyways, nice one! Gotta love Terry Crews!
15 jumps here, all solo, AFF course, never did a tandem jump. The few last ones no helmet, no radio, pilot chute, amazing feeling.
If you take an accelerated free fall course, it's a different experience because the first few times you jump, your chute will open right after exiting the plane, so you don't really experience a whole lot of free fall... but depending on how well you control your fall and navigation, you soon get some air time.
You don't get to enjoy the freefall much in the beginning because you are more worried about stabilizing the fall, hiting navigation points, and sticking the landing.
Well, that's from when I did my course, a bit over 15 years ago... don't think a whole lot has changed though.
It's expensive as heck these days, but yeah, those who want to do it, should... nothing quite like skydiving.
As for passing out, it really does happen. For tandem jumps not much of a problem other than the landing... pretty hard to stick a landing with a huge dead weight like that. xD
As for students jumping solo, student chutes have an automatic pilot that will open the chute at a limit altitude, so it's mostly also not an issue... again, the problem is navigation and landing, particularly when you have a limited area.
My landing zone was like the private airport area that was surrounded by two pretty large pastures, so you had lots of margin for bad navigation... which just happens when you are learning. xD Lots of people landing on top of fresh manure. :P
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