soarfree 0 #1 July 27, 2004 Hi all, I thought this story was amusing and I'd pass it on. I was on my first hop & pop on Sunday. My instructor and I were in the door hanging out and looking at the ground. I was a little nervous, but relieved with all the cheering and support of the loaded Otter. As we're looking down she decides to point out the local sights. Her first words are, there's the hospital! I'm a nurse and she thought it would be interesting for me to know, but all I could think was geez - the hospital!! Yikes! I gave her a hard time as she tried to explain herself and then she went on to point out the swimming pool and baseball fields. Maybe you have to be a slightly twisted health care provider to think that this was amusing... but it ended up being great because I was very relaxed out the door! And of course now I'm considering a career move to the hospital that's closer to the DZ! Blue skies! AJ Well behaved women rarely make history - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
livendive 8 #2 July 27, 2004 Just out of curiousity, when jumping an Otter, what altitude is your first hop & pop from? Does your progression include one hop & pop or two? Blues, Dave"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
soarfree 0 #3 July 27, 2004 Hi Dave, In the student book it's listed as being 3500, but we were closer to 4000. I did one hop & pop and 2 coached dives for the end of my student progression. Students have another option involving 3 hop & pops and no additional coached dives. (Of course this is as far as I know, still 5 days old in this sport! Blue skies, AJ Well behaved women rarely make history - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
obelixtim 150 #4 July 27, 2004 My JM was kind enough to point out the local cemetery on my first jump.....I told him I'd see him there first....... JM's were a bit ruff'n'tuff back then.....but you listened to them carefully........My computer beat me at chess, It was no match for me at kickboxing.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkymonkeyONE 4 #5 July 27, 2004 We do two: one from 5000 (or 5500) and the next one from 4000 (or 4500). The goal is the same on both: get out stable and immediately deploy (within five seconds). If you zoo the exit on the first one, you have plenty of time to get flipped over and stable for the pull. The second one simply allows less "fluff" altitude. Straight off the A card. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #6 July 27, 2004 We do 1 (from 4K). We get the student to do a practice exit from full altitude the jump before with a practice pull to check the stability.Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelpdiver 2 #7 July 27, 2004 So any strong positions on this - I've seen both out there, and that is one of only a couple requirements on my card left to complete. The DZ I have been using to finish does the 55/3500 sequence, but they're also using the older yellow sheet with the detailed progression. I've just been using a printout from Sept 2003 off the USPA site. I suspect I could ask for my preference on it. Still to do one more dock, but that's a diving exit. Maybe for me that's a better choice than poised - I do more of them anyway. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bodypilot1 0 #8 July 28, 2004 I always suggest a diving exit. How much time will you have in the case of an emergency to get poised in the door? Either way you choose, get out in a hurry and do not take the time to get yourself set up in the doorway for your exit, as you wont be able to when you need to exit the plane in a real emergency! Another thing I suggest to my students is to practice the exits and do dummy practice pulls from a higher altitude before they hire me to watch them and sign their card off. Be safe. -www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydived19006 4 #9 July 28, 2004 On my first H&P (Static line progression, C182), my JM who was the wife of the chief instructor and didn’t jump master much because she didn’t really like doing it, but on this day was the only JM available. Her last words of advice to me before climbing out were “you better not scare me!” she was serious. I relate this story once in a while in the airplane to my students on their first H&P. Another little irony, 14 years later I now own that Cessna 182, and am the DZO, although at another location.Experience is what you get when you thought you were going to get something else. AC DZ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
