Thank you Sky Mama, Streetscooby, Brendan, Mike, Sandar & Mr Jangra, for a warm welcome and advice.
My AFF went off well, most exiting was, swoop and dock and HNP, in fact all of them. I was comfortable in all the dives and could maintain balance, some bad habits from the earlier trg (which some of you would have noticed) and tunnel needs to be killed, your opinions and suggestions welcome once i upload the video. (I will post the link once done)
PFL (Practice Forced Landing) that we do in fixed wing flying and Tacking that we do in sailing really helped, could penetrate high wind speed by trying to tack like we do in sailing and applying 'High ? Turn High' as we do in PFL helped too, some seasoned undershot, since i turned base on perspective i ended up at 1000' on finals and made my landing spot (I was mighty thrilled about that and kept sort of bragging about it for a day or two),
Once i did go sky face, took sometime to get out of it, good thing though was i was altitude aware all the time.
i do intent to go to wing suit and base jumping. For base, i guess i will go to Twin falls next year, for Wing suit, haven't decided yet. before that i need to notch up some dives, looking at that magic 200 figure and some quality air time
My Earlier dives were, like i said was on PTRM and AMX, AFF was on Wings 260, exceptional canopy, if AMX was C-130, 260 was FA-18, it was a pleasure flying 260. Climb to height was painfully long on C172. Hope i get to dive from Caravan or Pilatus Porter
That was in a nutshell my experience with AFF trg,
Wish me luck
Adding one more pic
PS
My son did tandem, instr told me that he was confident in climb out and jumped without fear, did all that was told to him like checking altimeter and practice touch etc. though his mother doesn't approve, i know he will one day be a Sky Diver
Take care all you
Happy Landings
Gusty Live Life
