i will echo those that say there is no such thing as a perfectly good airplane.
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i will echo those that say there is no such thing as a perfectly good airplane.
Swooping is coming in fast and just skimming the ground while you get slower. Looks cool, but eventually you will get hurt doing it. Not if, but when.Originally Posted by Robb
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"Swooping" is when you come in to land at really high speed and pull back really hard so that you coast along, very close to the ground at high speed... can be upwards of 40 mph. The most dangerous variation of it is to swoop over water. If you touch the water, the drag will pull you in and then sometimes your parachute will land on top of you and drown you. Very exhilarating, but very dangerous. Most skydiving accidents are the result of bad decision making.
ETA: Hoser beat me to it.
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dont be bummed out. Skydiving in the grand scheme of things is safe. The sang in skydiving is "remember when skydiving was more dangerous than sex?" Parachutes are designed to open. They are designed to catch air and they want to open. My friends and I did many dumb things in skydiving. Fastest pack and jump contest? Throw it in a trash bag or cut away your main and jump with just your reserve...it will open! haha. Its over all safe, but you can still die doing things right. Get it for him and get the video. He wont remember the jump details and the video will help him remember it.
Badger...the safest type of swoop is over water. You do that because water will give a bit and you can survive mistakes where as the ground doesn't give at all. Swooping can reach speeds of close to 80mph depending on your parachutes sqft size. I had friends flying 60sqft canopies that couldn't swoop with their cypres2 on because it could activate their reserve thinking they were still in free fall. skydiving is as dangerous as you want to make it.
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That's our home dropzone. We've been jumping there even when they were at the old airport. Haven't been out there in a few years I'm sure things have changed.
I wish I could go Skydiving... Sadly.. I'm too big...
I wouldn't jump out of an airplane unless it was about to crash. But that's just me.
Some of the skydiving planes I've been in would make you wonder if it was
I am really not trying to but this subject is kind of close to home. I will say they have not given his license to drive back to him. I do know they were doing a one day class and then you could do a single static line jump the next. We had a shop day the week before and some of my co-workers jumped by themselves (first jump).
I see you running, tell me what your running from
Nobody's coming, what ya do that was so wrong.
Its the best thing you will ever do!!
I've jumped from 20,000 ft before.
Anyone that says "why jump from a perfectly good airplane" like Hoser said, there is no such thing. Another good statistic for ya, you have a better chance of dying in an automobile accident ON YOUR WAY to the airport than you do of jumping out of the plane.
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