husband and wife jumping together

[EricaH 0]

I agree w/ so many others here. It's not my place to decide. Even if I am watching the child(ren) & something happens to both of them, hopefully others will be there to aid me, the dz should have emergency numbers also.


Another question, what do you think of parents riding in a car together, getting on a train, in an elevator, walking down stairs together? All of those could be deadly.

If parents do nothing but breath the air, they should have a plan for their children if they should die.

Also, it shouldn't make you anymore uncomfortable if you are watching the kids than if you were just another observer.

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[dmbale 0]

At first (AFF and first 30 or so jumps) my husband and I wouldn't get on the same load together. Our daughter is fifteen.

Then I noticed that he was getting more jumps in than me, we talked about what it would take for four parachutes to fail, and if the plane got hit.

We decided that getting to jump together was more important and that the risks were acceptable.......our daughter knows to buy a new Otter if both of us die and name it after us.

[marsch 0]

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[ockers 0]

Oh, OK. So it's fine for you to ride bikes and jump from planes but not the Mrs. Get into the 21st Century mate

[rehmwa 2]

Being rough on him. He said "get on the back of the bike" that means both riding at the same time, on one bike, so that one accident takes out them both.

As far as we know, his wife has her own bike to drive separately, she chose not to skydive by her own free choice, and is an explosives demolition contractor, and plays with poisonous snakes on her free time. He just doesn't feel comfortable with them doing those things simultaneously, nothing here about separately.

On subject: I don't see an issue with jumping with my wife. We've taken steps for our daughter's future, and consider the risk of a simultaneous problem minimal. Yet, I still try to minimize riding the same plane, but don't go drastically out of the way to avoid it.

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[crutch 0]

On this issue, my wife and I have probalbly made well over 1800 jumps together. We have a nine year-old daughter who has grown up on the DZ. Has this ever been an issue, not that I can remember! Although I have never met anyone/couple with the issuses of this thread, I am not sure I could fully comprend giving up doing anything with my wife because I thought one or both of us may be killed. We lead a very active life and because of such, we have always had a plan in place in case of a castrophe. But, worry about such a scenario would definitely detract from the enjoyment we gain from participating in activities together.

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[rehmwa 2]

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On this issue, my wife and I have probalbly made well over 1800 jumps together. We have a nine year-old daughter who has grown up on the DZ. Has this ever been an issue, not that I can remember! Although I have never met anyone/couple with the is. . . nitely detract from the enjoyment we gain from participating in activities together.

Very similar to us.

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[PrairieDoug 0]

I know a whuffo couple with young children who insist on taking separate flights when traveling by air. (Gimme a break, but it's their call.)

Parents who make such a choice should be aware that while they are reducing the probability that both parents will be killed during the trip, they are doubling the probability that at least one will be killed en route.

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Oh, OK. So it's fine for you to ride bikes and jump from planes but not the Mrs. Get into the 21st Century mate....

She is not interested in skydiving or riding motorcycles, and she does not put pins in a skydiving voodoo doll when I'm at the drop zone. That stuff is not her bag. When she comes to the drop zone she reads or prepares lesson plans. She once took a shot at a copperhead with her .38 when I was at work so she is not timid.

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[Courteney 0]

Think you might be a tad paranoid there. What are the chances that both parents, (they don't have to be married), will be injured or killed on the same dive? (Plane crash aside)

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[bsoder 0]

My wife and I jump together, neither of us is worried about the chance that we could both die at the same time during a jump. The odds of that are awfully small... and going back to the tired old argument about whether jumping or driving is safer, I bet we're less likely to both die during a jump than we are driving to the dropzone.

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[Courteney 0]

Absolutley!!! Way more chance both dying on the way to dz than at dz.

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[DanglesOZQld 0]

Once when flying back in the early days I had a husband and wife spilit to go to an Island we were flying to. My mate flying the second aircraft had the husband and the wife was in the plane I was flying. I thought it quite odd at the time but it did make sense when you thought about it. This couple had two kids. It is really up to the couple to weigh the risks involved and a personal decision for themselves to make. Like what was said earlier though I do not think other jumpers should be looking after the kids without prior arrangement. BSBD! -Mark.

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[linestretch 0]

I got some attitude when me and the x would jump together, and the kiddo was sleeping in the pin. I didn't give a shit. I understand thier concerns, but it's our decision. We could easily have died in the car on the way home. Are you gonna hold back a couple from maybe bonding some more?

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