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| AFF Diary - Level 3 |
4th September 2005
Sat was a no jumper, the sun was out but the winds were up. So being
sensible we headed to the local at about 3.30pm, not the best idea in
the world, crawling home around 11pm.
Sunday looked much better, up early, feeling terrible and got my name on the manifest.
The aim of jump level 3 was - 1 practice pull and then just be let go
by the instructors, keeping stable and enjoying the ride. Got a
coffee and chatted to a few people, one of which had just come back
from Spain, where they completed their AFF course - I was informed they
failed level 3 and this compounded my feeling of illness. Then another
chat and someone else told me they failed it as well. hmm. great.
I got called, then kitted up, I was sweating at this stage and feeling
terrible. Once in the plane words cannot describe how petrified I was.
For the first time in my life
i really didn't want to do something, I considered getting out. Na can't do that, but i wanted to.
A 30 minute flight up to 10k with a lot of breathing by me and
occasionally farting from other people on the plane, and I really felt
awful. My instructor asks - are you ready to skydive - I say yes but
mean no, not at all. I just wanted to be home with my wife and cats :)
The door opened, I shuffled over, and fear left me - check in, check
out, up, down - arch, sweet. I was flying again, feeling great,
heading, altitude, check left - thumbs up, check right - extend
legs. Practice pull went well, during it I noticed for the first
time that the altitude was 9500ft, so things must move quickly - I had
no idea. Checked altitude and relaxed. I noticed around then that I had
been let go and was flying on my own for the first time, ah joy, I got
a few 'extend legs' signals, felt good, started turning slightly to my
left (which I discovered on the ground was because I was moving my left
arm slightly when checking my alti), I strangely opted to turn more to
the left to correct this for some reason and got a gentle push back
from Ronin, all good, bit more flying, bit more relaxing, then lock on
@ 6000ft. 5000ft wave, wave, arch reach pull.
My canopy opened with a ruddy big twist in it - arse, the twist was
growing/moving up the line, I considered if it could be a malfunction,
tried like buggery to kick it out - success. Ah relax. Although I
thought this must have been due to a poor arch when pulling, it seems
like it was more likely to have been a minor packing error.
The canopy ride down was interesting, it was windy at that stage and
forward movement was pretty much nil. Got my first bit of real
turbulence and had a few seconds thinking to myself hmm, if this went
wrong at this height i would need to be swift, etc.
Still landed on my feet, happy as a big happy thing, and confident that
I will never have the same irrational fear again. Even if I do, I'll be
better prepared to deal with it.
De-brief went well, only thing I was not okay on was my up, down, arch
bit of the exit - although I got the exit quick. I think it must just
have been my fear levels getting the better of me - as it’s pretty much
the easiest thing on the todo list.
Next level = level 4, meaning I passed, and in the future only have 1 instructor, which makes it a bit easier to get done. yay.
The sad note was Timmy didn't manage to get his level 3 jump done, as 1
of our instructors felt quite sick after my jump, needed to snooze for
a couple of hours and the winds had picked up by the time he was
feeling better, which made me feel kinda bad the whole way home, oops.
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