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Skydiving 7th May 2005
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Climbing to Tweleve Thousand Feet Twelve Thousand Feet and Falling Ten Thousand Feet, First Objective Complete Nine Thousand Feet, Checking the Ripchord
For my birthday, my brother Eric took me skydiving at Skydive Hastings. We enrolled in the Accelerated Free Fall (AFF) program: after some eight hours of training we were able to free-fall from 12,000 feet (without a static line or a 'tandem' instructor). I would recommend this to anyone: my best friends and my worst enemies. I'm in the middle with two AFF jump masters on either side. They are there to help in case of emergency and to certify a successful jump: there were several objectives I needed to perform during the jump. If you have keen eyes, you can see the altimeter on the chute read 10k feet. One of the objectives to perform during the jump was to thrice check my ripchord. This is somewhere near five seconds prior to deploying my square main canopy. By this time I had completed all objectives of the jump and was enjoying the amazing view. At 5,500 feet, I'd deploy the chute and float saftely back to ground. Although I have no still picture, I landed on my feet.
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Climbing to Tweleve Thousand Feet
For my birthday, my brother Eric took me skydiving at Skydive Hastings. We enrolled in the Accelerated Free Fall (AFF) program: after some eight hours of training we were able to free-fall from 12,000 feet (without a static line or a 'tandem' instructor). I would recommend this to anyone: my best friends and my worst enemies.
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