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Any Skydivers Here?

ChileRelleno

ChileRelleno

I'm a Master rated skydiver with over 600 jumps.
Jumps at over 100 Drop Zones in 42 States.
34 different aircraft and 5 different helicopters.
Lowest 1500' AGL Highest 28,000' AGL
3 Reserve Rides and 1 Injury
 
1st Jump, Sept 94'
Static Line over Otay Lakes, CA
4,000' AGL
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Jumping gear that was much older than I was
 
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Yeah, one (1) injury.
Perfectly functioning parachute.
A classic and actual case of, "Hey y'all, watch this!"
Shattered right Tib/Fib.
2 plates and 14 screws to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
 
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POP! Goes the Blister
 
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The TSA hates me
 
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luvmesump3pp3rz said:
u crazy dude. i have a hard time dealing with a 20 ` extension ladder.
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I worked briefly for this roofing company once, and they had me carrying shingles up this extension ladder on a 3 story house. You could feel the ladder flexing, I didn't like it at all lol
 
sicman said:
Chile, have you jumped in Zephyrhills?
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Yes, many times.
And in DeLand and Sebastian too.

ZHills is a great place for its international diversity.
I fondly remember a weekend spent jumping with a mother and daughter from Germany, and some people from Italy and Russia. Their English was broken at best but we communicated just fine in the mutual language of skydiving.
 
I heard they're still looking for an inadvertent skydiver that fell out of a C-130 last night just off the coast from P'cola. I hope he was wearing a chute.
 
DWB said:
I heard they're still looking for an inadvertent skydiver that fell out of a C-130 last night just off the coast from P'cola. I hope he was wearing a chute.
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The Coast Guard says a staff sergeant was training. He fell out of the aircraft at 1,500 feet. They say others in the plane saw the airman’s parachute deploy and say he was treading water.
 
LOL... I've fallen out of a C130 before too.
Well, we did a 30 person Magic Carpet Ride out of it.

Man I miss the fun at the old World Free Fall Convention.
 
There's a video out there of a guy that was filming his jump and mistook the bag for his camera equipment as his chute and realized partway through the video that he didn't have a chute on. Scary shit.
 
Ruid said:
There's a video out there of a guy that was filming his jump and mistook the bag for his camera equipment as his chute and realized partway through the video that he didn't have a chute on. Scary shit.
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I have to call bullshit on mistaking a camera gear bag for a rig.
But!
There have been a few jumpers leave an aircraft not wearing a rig.
One was just an excited guy (experienced jumper) who went up as a spectator and take pictures, excitement and habit got the better of him and he exited with his friends.
Deceased.
Another was a suicide, again an experienced jumper.
 
Chuteless jump into a net.
Big Brass Balls!

It's only a matter of time before some wingsuit jumper lands one without a chute.

I've seen a jumper hold onto another, the opened up and they both flew around.
It's what we call a Mr. Bill jump.
Normally the other jumper jumps off and deploys his own chute.
This time he rode the other guy all the way down and slipped off as the other guy landed.

There is video of that, I believe it's called Saving a Packjob.
 
sicman said:
By chance did you ever meet Bill Brandon? He was head instructor there for years.
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Can't say I did.
Not much hobnobbing with working staff, especially instructors.
As a self sufficient experienced jumper my main contact was with manifest.
 
Skydive Naked isn't just a funny bumper sticker.

Those were some fun jumps to make... But I'll tell ya something.
No 'body' is pretty in freefall, 120mph+ wind does strange things to skin.
 
Sorry, that was faked.
They refuse to show unedited footage, no news media onsite, no other proof.

The only real no canopy wingsuit landing was done into cardboard boxes.
That was fully documented and reported on.

No one has otherwise landed a wingsuit without a canopy.
 
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