Had to get up at 6 on sunday AND Sultan from next door is certainly not helping at all by having a drunk debate with 2 girls he brought back. So far I always had the impression that the walls are sound proof till that night. Got up a wee late anyway but hitched a ride with Joseph and Gavin anyway to Coleraine. Quite far....
Training was quite long and there was plenty of stuff to know for a brief jump only. Its almost like doing an assignment-' do this..., don't forget this,..yea and calculate this...blah-blah-blah...do that..' Seriously who the heck is goina remember all that at 3500 feet falling free-fall ? LOL
Training was interesting enough- they had plenty of fancy stuff to stimulate a jump as well. It was until the most important part- where he explain all the possible 'malfunctions' or 'uh-owh.. situation' (as I call them) was I abit nervous then -like theres basicly 101 things that could go wrong up there. E.g - 'blue skies above your head' , 2 canopies , stuck to the static line or broken static line... scary stuff. But we did the appropriate drills - 1000! 2000! 3000! 4000! check canopy! -no chute!/cacat canopy!- Cut! , Away! , Reserve! , Arch!
Board the plane and away we go! left the door open and just enjoyed the view... Climb slowly to the altitude of 3500 feet and approach the DZ. 'Feet out!' ..... 20 seconds of eternity and the command 'GO!' came and I left the safety of the cessna 203 , 4 seconds of free fall (and flipping) a tug and the main chute is open! Completely forgot half of the drills as adrenalin just took over. The feeling of having 3000 feet of nothingness and air between you and the ground is just -WORDLESS- , or even -PRICELESS- The descend was quick but the view is breath-taking.. Wondered if I should open my jump suit and reach for my phone to take a pic? Nope- Mr Nokia's staying where he is untill he's on solid ground plus there were plenty of equipment to interfere or snag on to if I'd tried so...
Managed to land in the right direction of the target but landing was rough and hard thanks to me-flaring last minute to avoid a ditch and hedge on the edge of the field while the ground control's shouting in the radio-'Pull up! no.3, Pull up! , Flare! flare! flare! ...'and *crash! , *bump ! , *flops! , 'ooowwwww.......' my right leg felt like it was jack-hammered... struggled to stand *pain ,*pain , *pain , *pain , and more pain..The landing had to taint this experience huh? Part of life.. take the sweet with the bitter ! :P
Mum rang during training and was obviously worried as she though in my email -when I told her about it , she though I was joking '...see , didn't read the text properly and lose points..'
She was worried sick and just asked me to ring her when its over -immediately- and hung up... When it was over, was thinking -
-should I ring
-its 2am in M'sia...
-yea ..
It was answered immediately.... say she'll never sleep should I not made that call.
-'Promise me you'll never do that again.'
-'Can't..' (*winks)
-'Thats a very dangerous risk, just do it once thats all.'
-(in my mind-free fall next time) :P
3 comments:
Legend!
Cant believe you did it!
Your leg ok?
A thousand miles was playing while i read the piece it totally made the read a 100 times better!
Never let mammys know your going sky diving!
You're one very lucky guy! How much do you have to pay for it?
I had to in case anything happens lol. Its pretty expensive -£170 plus ive gottha work for tat 170 bac now.... yea leg's fine now but it WAS definitely worth it! :) don't know when I'm goina do my next jump....
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