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Sun, 24 Aug 2008
Weather 0:1 Parachute Jumping.
That was fucking awesome!
One minute of the free fall from the 4 km high, wing parachute opened after we fell to 1.6 km.
We whirled several times during free fall and then made number of figures
with the parachute. I drove the wing to make several simple figures with quite heavy turns around.
Of course I actually was just a piece of meat linked to the instructor, who really
did all complex parts namely parachute opening, heavy rotations and landing, but it
was my first jump and that was exceptionally cool! I'm sure I will jump again in
Aerograd, but this
time not linked to the instructor but myself (with instructors in the air though).
More photos in the gallery.
There are also two videos (DVD format):
Aerograd promo (185 MB) and
a bit clumpsy video of my
jump itself (474 MB).
Stupid youtube says that I'm 'ineligible' for that service, so there is no compressed version.
Enjoy! :)