Monday, August 6, 2007

Jump #2- "Do you want to have fun or learn something?"

Rob's response when I asked him about 'having some fun' on my second jump made me think for a second. I replied "I think I'd rather learn something". He walked me through some basic left- right free fall steering maneuvers on the ground and told me I could pull the chute for us.

Pretty cool.

Again my brain decided not to participate in the first few seconds of the jump. On realizing what was going on I lifted my head and started us into some turns. It was AWESOME!

I grabbed Rob's arm and yanked it to my face to read his digital altimeter. I pulled the handle at 4950 feet!

He handed me steering toggles and I steered us around until we entered a landing pattern. There was another chute near us so Rob needed to take over at that point.

The landing was great and I left the place certain that I would be back very soon!

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