Pregnant Skydiver Survives Face-First Fall

[ShoogarBear]

If he's never done it before, it will be tandem. You are required to make a certain number of tandem jumps before you're allowed to go solo. And I don't think you can meet the requirement in one day.

Not true, unless they've changed things from 15 years ago.

We had two options: (a) start with solo jumps from low al ude, and work your way up. I think it took about 15 jumps to qualify this way. (b) start with tandem jumps from 10K-15K feet. I think it only took ~5 jumps this way. Option (a) was much cheaper per jump, but obviously took a lot longer and was more expensive in terms of total $ to qualify.

I did option a) because I didn't have much money, but my first day we were doing solos. They were only from about 3000 feet, so there was very little freefall and no maneuvers. It was jump out of the plane and pull the cord. I can't remember if we had to do one static line jump first or not.

I already had five previous static line jumps from Airborne school, but the others in the class were all first-timers.

[cherylsteele]

I don't like jumping out of bed, let alone a plane.

[Carie]

I don't like jumping out of bed, let alone a plane.

I have absolutely no problems with heights. None. Zero. Zilch. So when a bungee jump stand opened up outside of Lubbock I was more than ready to do it. And I figured I wanted to do it right the first time so I was attached by the ankles so I'd jump face down first. Yeah, when I got up there (it was only 8-10 stories high) and stood on that ledge I froze. I just new I was going to get caught in the cords and snap my neck. I'd still be up there today if the guy up there didn't count down from 3 for me. After my feet left the platform it was awesome!

That being said, sky diving is on my list of things to do. But I want my first jump to be somewhere with a beautiful view. I'm thinking by the Grand Canyon next trip to Las Vegas.