Water skiing (self-stopping) vs hurtling 90+mph down a hill of ice/snow with no brakes? Me, too. Fast driving and fast women are more my speed. I vaguely remember the latter...
-- Some people hear voices. Some see invisible people. Others have no imagination whatsoever.
I almost hate to ask what they do if it's a fer-real combat drop and those troops are needed on the ground ASAP.
Maybe (best case?) they just do the emerg chute without any delay, worst case, sorry buddy.
Dave
You must have watched the incredible videos of those rich kids jumping out of helicopters with snow boards from the peaks of mountains?
SW
The Kauai newspaper archives also has in its archives several reports of kite surfers being killed. It does not go without its hazards. I have given up my snow skis because of a broken back, knee problems, and degenerative neck bone disease. It was a lot of fun, though. I went skiing with a very pretty girl one time, and we took snowboarding lessons. I was getting it right away, and digging it, but she was not falling every three feet. I did not want to pay the price of skiing away from her, so we went back and got some traditional skis .....................
Steve
Heart surgery pending?
There was a special on TV on the Troll oilfield drilling platform in the North Sea. This was built in port, then towed to location, and sunk to the proper point. They had tours inside, and looking up through the hollow core for 700 or 800 or 900 feet straight up was amazing. You could dope someone and take them in there, and then when they woke up, tell them they were in a space ship, and it would be just that believable. Cavernous. I'm a little bit edgy about edges, too, if I am unsecured. But if tied off, I don't have that fear.
Steve
Heart surgery pending?
Well, silly. -Most- people learn how to swim and float -before- they try water skiing. Duh! ;^)
-- Some people hear voices. Some see invisible people. Others have no imagination whatsoever.
Self stopping? LOL! I was a self taught downhill skier, took me a lot of mental effort to overcome my instinct to lean back.
One summer some friends took me water skiing for the first time. Didn't get much instruction on what to do once up as they didn't expect me to master that right off. But I popped right up first time. I'm sorta leaning forward a bit, and thinking "something's not right here..." as the line goes slack. An instant later, I'm looking at the bottom of the lake in detail. Dazed, I roll over and look at the skis floating above me, with the surface well above them. About then it hits me I'm sorta in trouble. Was close enough to the bottom to push off, and combined with my life vest, I just broke surface as the urge to breath won out. Don't know how long I was under, but it was long enough to scare the crap out of my friends.
Jon
Why do you have an animated *gif named as a *jpg?
When I first went water-skiing, they told me two things: Let the boat do the pulling, and if^H^Hwhen you fall, let go of the rope! ;-)
Cheers! Rich
The twin Beech's were popular for large numbers of jumpers. But I am like you, I just don't want to press the envelope any more. I did it. It was fun. I've done a lot of things the average man has not. I have those mental pictures, and the pride of having done them. That's good.
Steve
Heart surgery pending?
Larger sport jump operations now mostly use Twin Otters and Sky Van's... with a handful of King Air's, Cessna Caravan's & Turbo Porters scattered around for good measure.
Smaller operations still use mostly Cessna piston pounders.
Erik
From watching their tail lights as they left you in the dust? ;-)
The PAC's are really really awesome planes.
We have two at my airport. They can make a midfield landing or takeoff, get up to
12-14 thousand feet, lose the jumpers and get down on the ground before they do.It's brutal on the pilots, going from 100 deg F on the ground to 40 deg f and back that many times a day, along with the noise stress and G forces.
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