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wasn't that proved to be a shop? If I recall it even came with a bogus 'news' link. There was a guy who got nailed and his face was pretty busted up.

Nothing to do with skydiving but I'll bite. What the hell was the pilot thinking? All that room and no bail. It was obvious she wasn't going to climb why continue to push it. Some of the people on youtube apparently don't know that the ipad can be used as a cluster and a gps. Glad everyone survived, the pilot looks pretty beat up though.

my first AFF jump I experienced line twist, did not require kicking to correct. I was spun around before I had time to pull apart the lines.

Don't make the same mistake I did, make sure you understand not only everything they tell you to do up in the air, but remember to REALLY understand how to fly under canopy! My first jump and I had a radio malfunction! So with that said, welcome :) I'm incredibly new as well.

Doing my training over at Skydive PA (mercer pa), still jumping however this will be the last weekend for me just too cold! I think the other guys jump until early December.

Hello, I just started, what I will now consider my addiction. I am currently IAF 2 and loving every single second of it. Hope to be with you guys for a long time :)

We WERE trained on how to handle the days conditions, however I did not jump the same day as my ground training. The day I returned, we went over the jump conditions but not enough to really make me think I was prepared for proper canopy flying. I will be asking this weekend (level 2) to touch back on canopy and what to do. They did check the radio after landing and it was faulty. I did not have an earpiece, the radio was inside ontop of my helmet so it was a bit hard to hear with my ears popping pretty hard. All-in-all I think it was a case of me being unprepared, and relying too heavily on the radio. I assume that's a classic 1st timer mistake. Thanks for the info, and thanks for the welcome...I cant believe I waited till 25 to realize how life changing this sport is.

So just last weekend I completed my first IAF Lvl1 Jump at SkyDive PA DZ. The jump was awesome and I can safely say I am hooked. However once I pulled and was under canopy I was having an incredibly hard time hearing the radios. I start freaking out and just kept circling the DZ as best as I could (pretty far off-course). Finally I could hear the radio and eventually landed exactly where I needed to be. The radio operator asked what the hell had happened up there, I explained I couldn't hear the radio and the wind was insane. I later found out they had stopped jumping students due to wind conditions. Basically I am asking, as a student If I do not have the assistance of a radio.....what should I do? I just kept looking around for alt spots to land if I could not land in the DZ.