On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:23:52AM -0400, Sheldon-YNT uDesign wrote: | Uhhh...Honey, how about an "early" birthday present...for $150 & 5 | hours training, I can make a jump??? NO! But honey... NO! ABSOLUTELY | NOT! NO WAY! But... NO! I'm gonna do it...You know that I've always | said I want to skydive, just once, make 1 jump...NO! I don't want to | talk about it...I'll get up and walk out...NO! (Hmmm...this is going | to be more difficult than I thought...I need a "plan").
I did that once. It was a present from my wife. Except that it was about $120 and only included about 20 minutes of training -- I had a guy strapped to my back, and a parachute on his back, so he did most of the hard work -- including pushing me out of the plane when I sort of balked :) It's definately something to try once, but it sure doesn't last very long. It's neat, but it's scary too ... but it sounds like you should try it. | (I'm still working on a "plan" to make a jump...Anyone got any | "helpful" suggestions) Oddly enough, my wife got it for me shortly after I upped my life insurance. Coincidence? :) (though I suspect that there's a clause in the insurance that keeps it from paying out if you're doing things like skydiving or racing cars.) Soaring content? Well, once that parachute opens, you're basically just in a glider, with two handles to pull -- pull the left one, you turn left, pull the right one, you turn right, pull both and you slow down (I think it's basically pushing the `nose' of the chute up, and so if you keep it up, you'll stall the chute.) The thing was pretty draggy though -- I think it would be hard to thermal it! -- Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
