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From: mitchell@MDI.COM (Bill Mitchell)
Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: Arch problems
Message-ID: <1991May11.170608.28994@MDI.COM>
Date: 11 May 91 17:06:08 GMT
References: <1991May7.134409.5340@eng.ufl.edu> <3333@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> <2938@atari.UUCP>
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In article <2938@atari.UUCP> bob@atari.UUCP (Robert F. Hutson) writes:
>
>One day, the local diving club came up with this great new
>(money-making) idea.  They tie-wrapped a 35mm camera to the strut.
>'For $10.00 we'll take your picture!'
>
>After spending the ten dollars, nothing was more important to me than
>staring into the camera!  Do you know how much arch it take to follow
>the plane after release?  Best jump of my life!
>

I did my first 5-sec delay exiting straight out the door of a cessna
instead of facing forward and holding onto the strut (per standard
practice at that jump center).  I front-flipped going out the door,
ended up stable on my back at about the count of 4, and decided to pull
in that position instead of resuming the tumbling trying to get belly-down.
The pilot chute and sleeve came up between my legs, and I rotated feet-down
as the sleeve came off and the main deployed.

My jumpmaster was an ex Golden Knight with 4000+ jumps, and his first
question when we got together on the ground was whether I had done a
lot of springboard diving.  Bingo.  Going out the door that way had
felt like a springboard takeoff, and I had arched head-down.  We went
right back up for another 5-sec with me concentrating on holding an
exaggerated head-up arch, and that one went just fine.


this before
-- 
mitchell@mdi.com (Bill Mitchell)