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[benamoz 0]

Hi everyone...
I am quite new. I am a VFR Pilot with a night rating. I am going to start jumping in the next few weeks. As a person who has several hundred hours of flying time logged already, I am hoping that it will be just a short hop to the chute....! Any preliminary comments...help...advice...you name it I'll take it. I want to do my aff I think its called as quick as I can. After some preliminary study I am hoping this goes as well as flying. I got my lic in the minimum time requirements with high marks because I am big on studying. So I am beginning my quest by research. Any help at all.....I'll take it....Thanks.
Ben

[AggieDave 6]

My biggest advice I could give you is to check EVERYTHING you read on DZ.com with your instructors before believing it.

Secondly, relax and listen to your instructors. Although you're a pilot, skydiving presents different challenges (although you're flying your body and canopy), so please take it easy and learn the differences in flight (especially your canopy). I say that due to watching a VERY experienced pilot (4,000-ish hours at the time) damn near die due to basically being too cocky with his canopy.

Lastly. Good luck, have fun and enjoy your flying now, I've seen more then one pilot fly less and less as they got into jumping.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[Jib 0]

Flying helps you to understand flying a canopy.
As for AFF, go to a windtunnel... Studying isn't a substitute for freefall.

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[DBCOOPER 5]

About the only thing it will help you with is air sense.It will be a little easier to identify things on the ground.

Replying to: Re: Stall On Jump Run Emergency Procedure? by billvon

If the plane is unrecoverable then exiting is a very very good idea.

[BIGUN 1,317]

As you know from being a pilot, there is a considerable gap between reading about flying and being able to fly. It is performance-oriented training. Just as landing an airplane is half knowledge and half feel, the same is true of skydiving.

Having said that, your pilot skills have given you a good foundation for landing the canopy because you'll be taught the same landing pattern procedures albeit at different altitudes.

In addition, your desire to read about expectations prior to performance is also to be commended because you'll have greater retention during class resulting in less performance anxiety.

There is one source I would recommend you start with and that is the Untied States Parachute Association's "Student Information Manual," commonly referred to as the "SIM."

I would encourage you to download it from uspa.org. Here is the hyperlink and go to "Manuals" on the left hand side of the page... http://www.uspa.org/publications/index.htm

Blue skies...

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[soignet 0]

I am a pilot also and am on my way to my A. I just did jump 17 yesterday. i went through static line because that is what my DZ offers for training. i find as a pilot i had no problems flying the chute. if anything i probably was more cautious of it because i put my self in some pretty scary situations flying doing stupid shit. in my opinion you have an advantage in flying the chute to the ground than someone with no flying experience at all.

[benamoz 0]

Well thanks everyone...that is sound advice. It seems everyone goes to Arizona for the winter. Perhaps I may jump in on this. I talked to the folks at Eden North. It is very doable. I have about 10k tucked away for this so I am not sure if I want to spend a bunch of money in arizona or wait for spring here. Either way, I have been watching a number of the online videos that are on the net. Most are quite exciting. I think that the flying of the canopy will have many similarities. Of course without that engine doing things like flying into wind will be a lot harder. (I can't paddle worth a darn)...So without that motor...the world may be a different place...and I am getting used to that idea in my mind. However I have seen the ground a thousand times from the air and I have played endlessly with varying winds, so I hope these all help. I am not sure if I can sit and wait till april.....
Ben

[beezyshaw 0]

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...the Untied States Parachute Association's "Student Information Manual," commonly referred to as the "SIM."

Actually the SIM is the Skydiver's Information Manual

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[BIGUN 1,317]

Yup. Was typing faster than my brain was thinking. Thanks for the correction.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[174fps 1]

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Well thanks everyone...that is sound advice. It seems everyone goes to Arizona for the winter. Perhaps I may jump in on this. I talked to the folks at Eden North. It is very doable. I have about 10k tucked away for this so I am not sure if I want to spend a bunch of money in arizona or wait for spring here.
Ben

going to AZ for the invasion would give you the jump start you are looking for.
you would have a concentrated training period, which generally means faster learning.
You would be jumping out of otters/skyvan rather than 182/206 much more comfortable
you get extra altitude 13500' those extra seconds per jump generally mean more learned per jump.
you get to meet a lot of jumpers from all over Canada and Alaska

[winsor 236]

Being a pilot is useful when learning to fly a parachute.

Be advised, however, that it is much harder to execute a go-around with a parachute.


Blue skies,

Winsor

[benamoz 0]

Heehee...Yeah...I bet your right...!! Its like flying a glider....you only get one shot at it....So I hear...
Ben