Anyone here know about skydiving?

[soldier-of-the-apocalypse]

I know its dumb to jump out of a perfectly good airplane

[Spdu4ia]

I tell people I've flown over 400 times but only landed once or twice

[Hoser]

I know its dumb to jump out of a perfectly good airplane

This is a common false assumption.

There is no such thing as a perfectly good airplane.

[HoneyBadger]

I'm used to jumping at sea level , I never really thought about that since I haven't jumped here in altitude. Hhmmmmm. We used to jump at 14000 and do a 16000 sunset jump.

I'm probably wrong here, but I thought you had to have oxygen to go above 12,500?

[rondog]

I grew up in OK and did about 48 jumps in '80-'82. Most fun I ever had! This was before tandem was common, we started with static lines and old surplus T-10 round canopies, and jumped from a 1956 Cessna 182. Not necessarily a "perfectly good airplane", but it went up and came back down in one piece reliably.

Anyway, I highly recommend it! Never done a tandem jump, but I hear that's the tits way to do it these days, especially for someone that just wants the one-time experience.

Place? Got no recommendations, but I've heard there's a large drop zone north of Denver somewhere, shouldn't be hard to find info.

Injuries? Yeah, they happen, but are rare with tandem jumps because the "driver" knows what they're doing and the liability is huge. Solo jumpers are the ones that get hurt (like me).

Definitely a "must do" on the list of someone with any adventure in their spirit at all. You'll never get me on a pair of snow skis, but if I could skydive again without wrecking my spine or knees I'd do it in a heartbeat. I'd have to make a water landing though to avoid injury, so fawk it. I'm on the right, circa 1980-81.

[Geology Rocks]

I jumped every weekend for 7 years. What do you want to know?

Where down south did you jump spd? Having jumped at altitude and sea level you get less free fall time here and less canopy time due to elevation. However you are going to 14,500agl here typically and no oxygen needed. If you can get a girl, or more than one is better, to flash the pilot I have even been at 16,000. Exit is 14,500ish, pull is 3500-5000ft. Never ever go to 2000ft as a parachute will snivle for 600-800ft and that only leaves you 1200-1400 to deal with any issues.

Love the picture ron! Classic right there!

Ps- there is some stink in this thread.

[Hoser]

I'm probably wrong here, but I thought you had to have oxygen to go above 12,500?

It has been 13+ years since I did any HALO, but...

Depends on the Military or civilian side of the house and how long you are above 12,500 ect.

In a nutshell (civilian) above 15K everyone must be on the hose. Military, crew must be on O2 above 10K and jumpers above 13K.

Above 18K you must prebreathe O2 for 30 minues before depressurizing.

And tons more rules like it.

[Geology Rocks]

Also....if you saw some of the airplanes And crap I have jumped from you would jump too. No way I was landing with some of that crap people called airplanes. All i cared about was not crashing before 4000ft. Haha

[TriggerHappy]

Didn't someone post some pics from a Hawaii trip? Jake?

^^^ Yup, TriggerHappy aka Jake did the jump. Had some cool pics too.

Yep, that was me. It was BA!

[jerrymrc]

Ps- there is some stink in this thread.

If ya want some stink come talk to my ( now ex Boss). I had a thread up but it died during the crash. Last person to be involved in a fatality here in Colorado and he lived. http://www.coloradoconnection.com/ne...aspx?id=737280

He is still AD and your welcome to come talk to him, Or what is left.