Wife's 1st jump

[thescot]

Man, what a gal. Adventure, fun, and looks, too.

You're a very lucky man, and that looks like a great day. I haven't done anything like that since the Corps, but I am thinking about it. I swore that i would never again jump out of a perfectly good aircraft--Like Mike said--but I'm reviewing the situation (as Fagin sings in the musical).

Congratulations to you and your bride for a great day. Maybe she'll talk to my wife.

[acstoon]

Man, what a gal. Adventure, fun, and looks, too.
You're a very lucky man

I feel I am very fortunate... she keeps me on my toes & smiling.
This is a woman who bungee-jumped, for the first time, on her 40th birthday!
Got her motorcycle license at 50.
Skydiving at 52... I can't wait to see what's around the next corner.
Never a dull moment here...
She's always on the go, but has found the time to help me raise my daughter (from a previous marriage) and chase after her 8 grandkids.

Lucky? I hit the jackpot!

[Kiltferone]

Very cool!! She is a keeper for sure.

I am too heavy to jump right now, but I have promised myself for many years, that if I ever get to my target weight I will jump out of a airplane at least once. I am afraid of heights and I think It will scare the s### out of me, but I will still do it once.

Great pics.

[acstoon]

I am afraid of heights and I think It will scare the s### out of me, but I will still do it once.

I'm terrified of heights... the wife cleans the gutters, in fact
But jumping out of a plane (at those heights) is something the human brain just can't compute, I guess.
I've never hesitated.

[emolas]

I'm terrified of heights... the wife cleans the gutters, in fact
But jumping out of a plane (at those heights) is something the human brain just can't compute, I guess.
I've never hesitated.

I am scared of heights too but, like you said, that altitude just doesn't compute. I hate climbing ladders but I have no problem standing on the skids of a huey several hundred meters up. I always wanted to try jumping. I was a parachute rigger in the Marine Corps so I packed a lot of them but never got to use one.

[Kiltman]

As an Air Force guy, I still don't understand why anyone would want to jump out of the perfectly good airplane.

[BonnieT100]

I jump out of planes for a living. There's not much serenity involved. You have engine noise the entire time in the flight. Then there's that noise when the doors open and your heart starts racing. About this time your brain is asking why you do this and if you remember the pain from the last jump. Next you exit the aircraft, get tossed around and then yanked really hard. If you're lucky, you aren't swinging like a pendulum in a grandfather clock. Once I looked up and saw a C-17 (cargo bird slightly smaller than a 747) coming straight at me. I'm sure he was a couple hundred feet above me, but the mind plays tricks when you are screaming toward Earth at 15ft per second. Once all this fun and relatively peaceful part is over, you know what's coming next. If things are going well, you are drifting ever so slightly in a favored direction - for me, this is to the left. You make sure your feet and knees are together and relax. Yeah, relax knowing in a couple of seconds you are going to know what gravity is. Then it happens. This can be mostly summed up in one word - WHAM! quickly followed by OOOOH, and possibly some expletives. I've seen flickers of light 3 times when I hit. That would be my brain slamming into my skull. Usually this is following me hitting the ground on uneven terrain, having the wind change direction on me right at the last minute, or just general bad luck. I do this for an extra $150 in my paycheck. Crazy people do it for fun!

[MysticMead]

I'm terrified of heights... the wife cleans the gutters, in fact
But jumping out of a plane (at those heights) is something the human brain just can't compute, I guess.
I've never hesitated.

I hate heights too... but at 15,500 feet... there's nothing around to base your height with...and since the ground doesn't really come rushing at you.....there's no fear... besides, what are you going to do about it while in free fall

[MysticMead]

I jump out of planes for a living. There's not much serenity involved. You have engine noise the entire time in the flight. Then there's that noise when the doors open and your heart starts racing. About this time your brain is asking why you do this and if you remember the pain from the last jump. Next you exit the aircraft, get tossed around and then yanked really hard. If you're lucky, you aren't swinging like a pendulum in a grandfather clock. Once I looked up and saw a C-17 (cargo bird slightly smaller than a 747) coming straight at me. I'm sure he was a couple hundred feet above me, but the mind plays tricks when you are screaming toward Earth at 15ft per second. Once all this fun and relatively peaceful part is over, you know what's coming next. If things are going well, you are drifting ever so slightly in a favored direction - for me, this is to the left. You make sure your feet and knees are together and relax. Yeah, relax knowing in a couple of seconds you are going to know what gravity is. Then it happens. This can be mostly summed up in one word - WHAM! quickly followed by OOOOH, and possibly some expletives. I've seen flickers of light 3 times when I hit. That would be my brain slamming into my skull. Usually this is following me hitting the ground on uneven terrain, having the wind change direction on me right at the last minute, or just general bad luck. I do this for an extra $150 in my paycheck. Crazy people do it for fun!

yeah... but that's a completely different type of parachute...it was made to get you down to earth as fast as possible and not kill you on impact...150 amonth extra isn't nearly enough... but then again... how many jumps a month do you make for that 150?

[MysticMead]

As an Air Force guy, I still don't understand why anyone would want to jump out of the perfectly good airplane.

I'm an Air force guy too... and there's no such thing as a perfectly good airplane....