New Jumper

[DZJumper 0]

Wow, I gotta say that skydiving is an amazing rush and experience.

Yesterday I went for my first tandem jump with my sister. I wasn't nervous about it, until we were about to jump. the reality sunk in. WHAT A RUSH!

I jumped from 13,000ft, the view was amazing to say the least. Once the door opened when we reach altitude, I got one hell of a adrenaline rush.

The instructor pushed us forward towards the exit, he counted 1, 2, 3. Holy crap, i couldn't believe I was actually skydiving. The chute deployed, I was handed the toggles. That was another rush, feeling the turns and gently glidding to earth.

Ohh oh, now the landing, I was wondering how it would turn out. It was a bit rough, hit my butt on the ground pretty good and sprained my finger.

Now, like many others. I find myself hooked, so what the landing wasn't perfect. But the image I had of freefalling was pretty good.

This Sunday I signed up for a IAD, I'm actually more nervous about that, then the tandem jump. Sure the chute is deployed once i leave the plain. But its the whatifs that are kinda racking my nerves. Like;

- what if the primary doesn't open properly
- how do i spot the DZ

There is a 5hr course with this, so I am sure everything will be EXCELLENT!

I'd like to thank the Eden North Club in Canada, Alberta for being so great. You guys made my expeirence one that I will not forget in my lifetime.

I plan on getting my AFF in the future as well.

Blue skies!
James Anderson

[Chubba 0]

Welcome to DZ.com

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Like;

- what if the primary doesn't open properly
- how do i spot the DZ

Emergency procedures and malfunctions will be beaten into your head.... over and over and over

I'm not too familiar with IAD, but spotting usually comes later on in your progression, a lot of DZ's require you to be able to spot an aircraft for your A license.

Glad you enjoyed the canopy ride

[skymama 37]

Welcome to the forums!
As far as spotting the dz, do you mean just being able to find it in the air? You'll be shown an overhead view of what the area looks like. The airport runways are usually pretty easy to distinguish from everything else and if your dz has a pea pit, that's easy to pick out too. Your instructor will teach you where you need to be for each part of your canopy ride, from where you need to hang out, to where you need to be on each leg of your landing pattern. You'll learn a lot in the ground school, don't worry.

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[brucet7 0]

I remember back those many months ago, like 8, sitting in the door of the 182 and being asked, "Do you see the landing zone?" If you don't see it, you don't jump. But it is pretty easy, at least here, to pick it out. It did seem rather small, however.

POPS #10623; SOS #1672

[dreaming13000 1]

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- what if the primary doesn't open properly
- how do i spot the DZ

On my AFF 1 & 2 jumps, I told myself to fully expect a malfunction when my main canopy deployed ( just so I wouldn't loose precious time in shock lol) they will teach you your emergency procedures and I recommend that you be able to do them in your sleep, better safe than sorry.

I was very worried about landing my canopy the first jump. But everything went well under my first canopy deployment, I found the DZ right between my legs and figuring out my holding area and landing pattern after that was quite easy.

http://www.uspa.org/publications/SIM/2007SIM/section4.htm

I suggest reading this, even buying it , the skydivers information manual, they have alot of information about landing patterns etc. GOOD LUCK!

"A man only gets in life what he is believing for, nothing more and nothing less" Kenneth Hagen