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It took a while, due to bad weather but

Why on earth you would want to jump out of a perfectly serviceable airplane is beyond me

Matt

Why on earth you would want to jump out of a perfectly serviceable airplane is beyond me

Matt

Well thats very easy! You need to be slightly mental(Even the pilots are) and you need to have the urge to fly with the birds, for skydiving is real flying. otherwise riding a boat would also equal swimming:

"If riding in an airplane is flying, then riding in a boat is swimming. If you want to experience the element, then get out of the vehicle."

This is great stuff... you will get me in that doorway pretty soon, I think.

I'm very curious how they rig a static line in a 182... didn't know they did that.   :-?

The same as in a 208, through a bar in the floor. The jumpmaster needs to take in the bags each time though. Offcourse there is only 1 seat in the plane, the pilots his seat. Il see if i can shoot some photo's of it today.

You definitely should jump atleast once, you could try a tandem first if your not sure if you are going to like it. Otherwise you could start a AFF/static-line training. Although this also requires a minimum amount of jumps each few months. Same as with flying.

Why on earth you would want to jump out of a perfectly serviceable airplane is beyond me

Matt

Well thats very easy! You need to be slightly mental(Even the pilots are) and you need to have the urge to fly with the birds, for skydiving is real flying.

The mental state is not in question but skydiving is more about falling than flying, it is just a question of how gracefully you can fall out of the sky

Matt

Flying is throwing yourself at the earth and miss. So i recon skydivers are doing a pretty good job at it .