Skydiving Logbook
Here is a short description of some of my completed jumps. I'm not including them all nor am I including the textual descriptions from my official logbook. My goal here is to give the reader a sense of what some of my jumps are like without being boring. ;-)
All altitudes are AGL (Above Ground Level) rather than MSL (Mean Sea Level).
Most Recent Jump
| #45 - 21 July 2001 |
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altitude: 11,500ft
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delay: forty-five second freefall
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Remembering how to fly.
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Selected Milestone Jumps
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| #1 - 23 July 1995 |
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altitude: 3,200ft
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delay: static line
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First Jump! Wow, what a rush. It was a good jump and I did everything that I needed to even if I did forget to count off. Scott and I took the class together and made our first jump on the same day.
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| #3 - 06 September 1995 |
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altitude: 3,200ft
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delay: static line
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First Practice Ripcord Pull. I've got a pair of good jumps in and now I start to prepare for pulling my own ripcord.
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| #7 - 03 August 1996 |
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altitude: 3,500ft
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delay: clear and pull
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First freefall! Awesome rush. I still haven't been remembering to count off, but I am pulling that ripcord in time.
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| #8 - 07 August 1996 |
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altitude: 3,500ft
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delay: five second freefall
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Excellent fun. During this jump there was acutally enough time to transition fully to the belly-to-earth position. I actually counted five seconds out this time. :-)
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| #10 - 31 August 1996 |
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altitude: 4,000ft
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delay: ten second freefall.
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Terminal velocity reached for the first time.
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| #20 - 19 July 1997 |
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altitude: 6,000ft
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delay: twenty second freefall
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I've started learning maneuvers with a flying a figure eight while freefalling. It's a great feeling to actually be steering and controlling my flight and seeing the jumpmaster flying a little above me grading my progress.
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| #32 - 20 June 1998 |
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altitude: 6,000ft
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delay: twenty second freefall.
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It took me five jumps before I nailed a backloop in the air. Finally!
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| #36 - 12 July 1998 |
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altitude: 7,500ft
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delay: thirty second freefall
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This was my first 2-way relative work. Relative work is the act of hooking up with one or more other skydivers in the air. This was a fairly quick hookup and we held it for maybe 5 seconds before breaking away to deploy our parachutes.
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| #40 - 02 August 1998 |
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altitude: 8,500ft
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delay: forty second freefall
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Whoo Hoo! Graduation jump! 2-way relative work with a quick, easy hookup. I've finished the canopy and skydiving flight requirements. I nearly have my license now.
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| #41 - 08 August 1998 |
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altitude: 6,000ft
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delay: sixteen second freefall.
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This is my first jump off student status. Basically that means I get to do my own thing without supervision - a great feeling! I opened high in order to experiment with a different, more maneuverable canopy.
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| #44 - 21 July 2001 |
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altitude: 11,500ft
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delay: forty-five second freefall
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Finally back jumping after about two and a half years. My jumpmaster would agree that I was pretty rusty in the air.
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