Thread: Skydive SI

My advice is stump up for the training (I think it is a day in class and on the ground or used to be?) to jump out solo and be in charge of your own destiny.

20 odd years ago I did a Tandam as a gift, girlfriend bought it for my birthday, I rang to see how much to upgrade to a solo jump but the company only did tandems.

So I did the Tandam... did one forward roll out of the plane, then with a drogue shute out to stop you plummeting to earth as you are strapped together you basically cannot do anything but fall slowly face down with some dude strapped to your arse.

If you haven't got the gist yet I was extremely underwhelmed with the whole experience and have had more exciting taxi rides.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

My advice is stump up for the training (I think it is a day in class and on the ground or used to be?) to jump out solo and be in charge of your own destiny.

20 odd years ago I did a Tandam as a gift, girlfriend bought it for my birthday, I rang to see how much to upgrade to a solo jump but the company only did tandems.

So I did the Tandam... did one forward roll out of the plane, then with a drogue shute out to stop you plummeting to earth as you are strapped together you basically cannot do anything but fall slowly face down with some dude strapped to your arse.

If you haven't got the gist yet I was extremely underwhelmed with the whole experience and have had more exciting taxi rides.

Not sure if I would call 200kph "slowly" but because of the height you definitely don't get that ground rush effect you do with a bungy. Tandem is a good way to experience free fall without the expense and time of solo training.

Originally Posted by Shearer

Not sure if I would call 200kph "slowly" but because of the height you definitely don't get that ground rush effect you do with a bungy. Tandem is a good way to experience free fall without the expense and time of solo training.

yea but it is not free fall you are tethered to a drogue.

If you just want to be able to say "Yea iv jumped out of a plane" then perfect.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

yea but it is not free fall you are tethered to a drogue.

If you just want to be able to say "Yea iv jumped out of a plane" then perfect.

The "drogue" has a reason and that reduce the velocity to a suitable one and then save your life during the opening, yes you are restricted to "fewer" movements but it is 100% more than your "static line" or first AFF(accelerated free fall), static line you have no more than 5 seconds till your parachute fully open and in the AFF case however you have the 30 seconds Freefall you will be full time supervised by two instructors.