Last Saturday and some guys from my shop and I decided to go skydiving. We did a static line jump. This is different from what you normally see with people free falling for several seconds before the chute deploys. Instead you jump out by your self with a line connected to the aircraft which pulls the chute out. If you’ve ever seen Band of Brothers, its the same thing.
We started the day by going through a few hours of classes on proper technique and making sure your parachute is good and flyable once it is deployed. This is me learning the proper way to exit the aircraft.
I was the first one to jump from my aircraft. There's only room for 3 jumpers plus your jumpmaster in the aircraft. So I was sitting in the doorway just like the above picture until i jumped. Once you get to altitude, we jumped at 3500 ft, the door opens and the jumpmaster says GO! You reach behind you and grab the orange painted section of wing. Then set your feet on the little step above the wheel and slide out to the yellow section of wing. At this point your feet are dangling and your just holding on.
This is right above the yellow section. Your supposed to look at it right before you let go. By doing this it puts your body into and arch which makes your parachute deploy properly. You only fall for about 5 seconds before the parachute deploys. Then its about a 2-3 minute flight to the ground.
Here I am soaring to the ground.
This is a picture I took of Wilson. I think it turned out awesome.
And this is the guys from my plane. From left to right its Peirce, out jumpmaster Tommy, Marchese, and me.
This is what they gave before we left. It was a really fun thing to do and I will defiantly do it again.
