mch9173

Of course you can. I've made many night jumps years ago and do the think any were ever a full moon. Nothing but a chem lite in my mouth so I could see my chest mount atli....

About 93-94 at Parachutes & Associates in Indiana I was watching over a sl/jm in training. We had one 1st ripcord pull going out then following a 30 sec. delay from a C182. I was the hop n pops jm for the previous two prcp's and she had done great both times earlier that day. So I'm kneeling behind the jm in training watching him put the 1st student out and the 30 sec. delay is seated behind the pilot. He tells her to go and she immediately flips on to her back and starts to spin. The assistant jm starts yelling pull pull as we are both leaning out the door watching. Next thing you know we are both yelling f--king pull at the top of our lungs!! Finally after what seemed like an eternity, she pulls on her back and it comes out as a line over!! So now our screams go from pull pull to cut away cut away. Luckily she had the sense to chop it right away and landed a round reserve in a parking lot. That's when we realized we still had another student on board... Lmao, you should of seen the look on his face when we turned around. We got him calmed down and went on to do a successful 30 sec. delay and he later ended up making 1000+ jumps and became a great friend. The lady got off pretty lucky. She broke her ankle landing in the parking lot and never returned. He told me later on in his jumping career that he almost told us he wasn't going to jump and quit right there on the spot.

Lived two miles from the dz while growing up. My parents bought me a 1st jump course for my 16th birthday @ Parachutes and Associates in Indiana. Didn't do so well with the static line, so took a year off, got a part time job and saved up for AFF. First year skydiving, I made 317 jumps. Got burnt out after a few years, had a family etc. Haven't jumped in over 18 years but think about it almost every day.