: -------------- 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 --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_15228_1123267062_0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Dave and all,

I to would not recomemd taking skydiving up as a major advocation

but that being said I believe it is good training should that" O s*it" situation

arise and you have no other choice to save your butt !! By the way Dave

my one HALO was with 10 others from 21,000 ft.........and on that same jump

had that "accidental" cloud penetration (4000 ft to 2000 ft agl )

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Kelly Troyer
Dyke Delta/13B/RD1C/EC2

-------------- Original message from David Leonard <wdleonard@gmail.com>: --------------

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

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