Chockstone Forum

      Sponsored By
      ROCK
   HARDWARE

Chockstone Photography

Australian Landscape Prints

Chockstone Forum - General Discussion

General Climbing Discussion

Topic Date User

Completely OT - Skydive Nagambie 29-Jan-2009 At 10:10:50 AM skydemon

Message

I've probably done a few hundred jumps at Nagambie now, it's a pretty good dropzone and it's got the fastest plane in Vic as well. Spent many drunken nights there :)

Best jump: aerobatic ride up in a Russian YAK plane followed by getting out of the c0ckpit which was very sketchy then walked onto the wing followed by a backloop off it.

Worst jump: Was a competition jump done in 'inclement weather'; a bunch of cloud formed up below us by the time we got to jump run but it didn't look too bad. My team got outside the door and were setting up to jump when we were called down as it was bucketing rain on the ground, everyone in the plane was shouting "No!"...which sounded a lot like "Go!"...so we went. Hitting ice in the cloud then the rain afterwards at 200km/h was not fun, we ended up on the ground bleeding from our faces and necks and soaking wet. At least it was a memorable jump I guess :)

And skydiving is no more dangerous then RC; there is a small margin for error so if you c0ck up the consequences are usually pretty bad but the very vast majority of fatalities and injuries are caused by pilot error - not by gear failure/bad weather/bad luck etc