Close call

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:33 pm

Look at this!

http://media.spikedhumor.com/8723/close_call.wmv

CJ

papakeith · Post by **papakeith** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:40 pm

that's a great example of how something on a collision path doesn't appear to be moving.
The plane is in frame from almost the beginning of the video sitting in the same spot. Just getting bigger and bigger and bigger. . .

JohnR · Post by **JohnR** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:14 am

Yikes!

aerial · Post by **aerial** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:39 pm

I solo jumped from 13000' feet one time in Eloy, Arizona. After 8 hrs. of grilling classroom instruction they finally let me jump out of the plane

They have 2 jumpmasters jump right after you to chase you down if you freak out or freeze up. You have a whole "itinerary" to complete in the air, (things like turns, forward motion, etc.), and they want you to visually keep checking your altimeter, and they fly up to you and look in your eyes.

What I was suprised with was how much you can control your lateral movement with your body. Pull your arms back and straighten your legs a little and you go forward accelerating at about 120 mph (faster than a sport pilot

) Needless to say in my forward motion I ditched my jumpmasters (which they weren't too happy about) Pulled my shoot 1500 ft. too late (on purpose

, and dropped my rip-cord, which I had to pay for, but who can remember to hang onto that thing when so much is going on?

What a gas!

Rupester · Post by **Rupester** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:22 pm

My skydiving was done 6 Vulcan-eons ago when I was 21. Now you couldn't PRY me out of an airplane unless it were on fire. (Flames licking at your nether regions can impell you to do odd things.

)