[Warik]

I am not afraid of heights or anything but of course we can't compare standing on a roof to being 13,500 feet in the air... so I didn't know how it was going to be when I was up there. Surprisingly I was extremely calm during the entire ride up and didn't get nervous at all. When approaching the open hatch, the ol' heart did start pumping a bit faster but it was more out of the body's natural reaction to the brain telling it what is going on rather than pure fear. I felt very calm after seeing the French dude and the two chicks jump out and very comfortable knowing that the instructor has done this EASILY at least 1,000 times.

For someone who thinks he/she would get scared, the scariest part would most likely be the initial jump from the plane or the seconds leading up to it. It just goes so contrary to the body's natural survival instict telling you "yeah, you have a parachute BUT IT'S SAFER TO JUST LAND IN THE PLANE!!!" Once you're out the hatch all you can think about is how awesome it is.

Oh... one more thing... IT'S NICE AND COLD UP THERE! It was about 70 degrees on the ground when we went up. When they opened the hatch I could feel the cool air coming in, and when we jumped out and the air was hitting my face it must have felt like it was 50 degrees tops.

I would recommend it to anybody who isn't prone to panicking on roller coasters. Definitely do a tandem jump for your first jump and do it at a place that looks like it is run well and has been in business for a while. I felt very comfortable on the ground with these people too. They really knew what they were doing... or at least did a good job fooling me into believing it! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]