Re: Skydiving - Trip Report
I see a couple of you did your first jumps solo from lower altitude tied to some cord (I'm guessing the cord automatically deploys your chute?)... definitely harder to make the jump I think. When doing tandem it was a little easier because the instructor was the one who does the final push (since he's on your back), so all you have to do is not resist... which is impossible anyway since you're in a mechanically disadvantageous position.
They gave me a flyer for some training packages which looks awesome. For $1,600 I would get a tandem jump, a 1 year membership to the USPA, ground school, and then SEVEN solo jumps. Crazy [censored]! I'm not sure if the instructor is assisting on those 7 jumps because this particular one I'm reading says "AFF = Accelerated Free-Fall" and the other column says "IAF = Instructor Assisted Freefall." Not sure if I could make my first solo jump without at least an instructor falling nearby.
Definitely gotta do this again though. If I ever get a sweet ass job that actually pays bonuses, my first one will go toward this. Then whenever I travel anywhere I could add "jump out of airplane" to the list of things to do there. Vegas would look badass from 3 miles up.. muhahaa.
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