X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from redline.d2.com ([66.251.81.115] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.6) with ESMTPS id 625966 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 05 Aug 2005 13:59:56 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.251.81.115; envelope-from=stjohn@openbar.com Received: from plato.d2.com ([172.16.52.14]) by redline.d2.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j75HvnSI026810 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 10:57:49 -0700 Received: from [172.16.50.107] (stjohn@capri-l.d2.com [172.16.50.107]) by plato.d2.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j75Hwsh6012243 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 10:59:04 -0700 Message-ID: <42F3A8DD.4070601@openbar.com> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:58:53 -0700 From: John Courte User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Hit the Silk ?? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------060106040100070404010906" X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.86.1/1003/Thu Aug 4 07:43:24 2005 on plato.d2.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "redline.d2.com", has - looked at this email to check wether or not is is spam. See below - for the result. If you have any questions, see - for details. Thank you. - - Content analysis details: (0.2 points, 5.0 required) - - pts rule name description - ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- - 0.1 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message - 0.1 HTML_TITLE_EMPTY BODY: HTML title contains no text - - X-Spam-Score: 0.219 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.43 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060106040100070404010906 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've got about 30 jumps, but at some point I realized I was having more fun riding in the plane than jumping out of it so I quit and got my private pilot ticket instead. :) David Leonard wrote: > I have about 150 jumps including night jumps and water landings. Also > made a couple of unintentional off LZ landings. Although I also would > love to do some HALO and HAHO, I gave it up for several reasons: > > 1) TOOOO Dangerous. In the few short years I was into the sport it is > amazing how many people I had known were killed. Also had a close > call myself. > > 2) After the first 50-100 jumps it starts to loose much of the initial > appeal. It is then only interesting if you can be out there every > weekend and you are part of the "in" crowd. And I had neither the > time nor money for that. > > 3) Got tired of packing chutes and waiting around for the plane or > other people. > > But, for anyone who has not tried it, there is nothing quite like it. > I highly recommend a few AFF jumps or a tandem. For a real rush, fall > through a cloud! (on accident). > > -- > Dave Leonard > Turbo Rotary RV-6 N4VY > http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/rotaryroster/index.html > http://members.aol.com/vp4skydoc/index.html > --------------060106040100070404010906 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've got about 30 jumps, but at some point I realized I was having
more fun riding in the plane than jumping out of it so I quit
and got my private pilot ticket instead. :)

David Leonard wrote:

I have about 150 jumps including night jumps and water landings. Also made a couple of unintentional off LZ landings. Although I also would love to do some HALO and HAHO, I gave it up for several reasons:

1) TOOOO Dangerous. In the few short years I was into the sport it is amazing how many people I had known were killed. Also had a close call myself.

2) After the first 50-100 jumps it starts to loose much of the initial appeal. It is then only interesting if you can be out there every weekend and you are part of the "in" crowd. And I had neither the time nor money for that.

3) Got tired of packing chutes and waiting around for the plane or other people.

But, for anyone who has not tried it, there is nothing quite like it. I highly recommend a few AFF jumps or a tandem. For a real rush, fall through a cloud! (on accident).

--
Dave Leonard
Turbo Rotary RV-6 N4VY
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/rotaryroster/index.html
http://members.aol.com/vp4skydoc/index.html

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