Interesting Base Jump

the act doesn't scare me, but the work involved deters me.
If i wanted to put a whole lot of effort into a few seconds of thrill, i can think of easier ways.
 
Back in my young and stupid days I got into skydiving ... made crap load of jumps … even some pretty large formation jumps. I never had one real problem … but there ain’t no way in hell you’d catch me doing a 50 meter BASE jump no matter how large PCA rig you gave me.
 
NCFubar said:
Back in my young and stupid days I got into skydiving ... made crap load of jumps … even some pretty large formation jumps. I never had one real problem … but there ain’t no way in hell you’d catch me doing a 50 meter BASE jump no matter how large PCA rig you gave me.
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PCA?
 
It's one thing to get in a plane to jump. That was scary enough. This deal is just a NO, as I hate heights!
It did look thrilling, though, but I'm too old and too much of a wuss to try something like that.
 
Millie said:
It's one thing to get in a plane to jump. That was scary enough. This deal is just a NO, as I hate heights!
It did look thrilling, though, but I'm too old and too much of a wuss to try something like that.
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I don’t like heights either. I’ve had five or six static line jumps out of aircraft.

For some reason, jumping out of an aircraft that was at an altitude 5000 feet or higher didn’t bother me. It’s the lower heights that are high enough to kill you but low enough where your depth perception can gauge the danger that bother me.

The scariest part for me was the plane ride up from takeoff to about 3000 ft. Got a bunch of jumpers crammed into a stripped down Cessna 182. Recipe for disaster. I wouldn’t do it again and I’m a licensed pilot.

Jumping out the back of a big aircraft, I wouldn’t mind that at all.

This video? Like I said it really looks cool. But I would be so woozy when I got up there and in such a mess, I’d probably fall off after passing out. Lol.
 
Qball said:
I don’t like heights either. I’ve had five or six static line jumps out of aircraft.

For some reason, jumping out of an aircraft that was at an altitude 5000 feet or higher didn’t bother me. It’s the lower heights that are high enough to kill you but low enough where your depth perception can gauge the danger that bother me.

The scariest part for me was the plane ride up from takeoff to about 3000 ft. Got a bunch of jumpers crammed into a stripped down Cessna 182. Recipe for disaster. I wouldn’t do it again and I’m a licensed pilot.

Jumping out the back of a big aircraft, I wouldn’t mind that at all.

This video? Like I said it really looks cool. But I would be so woozy when I got up there and in such a mess, I’d probably fall off after passing out. Lol.
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I agree, that's way too high and narrow for me...assuming I could get up there, which I doubt. lol.
 
BigWaylon said:
Turns out that’s not what it was
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Dang. That does look like a helicopter sitting there in that first screenshot. Resembles a Bell 206 or a UH1. Lol.
 
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Try bungee jumping off a very high bridge instead. Most of the time the bungee doesn't break & it's a really great adrenalin rush.
Got to help thin out the crazies somehow.
Grab the loony lefty, hook the bungee harness to him / her / whatever, & throw he she it off the bridge.
 
Oh to be young, adventurous and (dumb) again!
 
Qball said:
I don’t like heights either. I’ve had five or six static line jumps out of aircraft.

For some reason, jumping out of an aircraft that was at an altitude 5000 feet or higher didn’t bother me. It’s the lower heights that are high enough to kill you but low enough where your depth perception can gauge the danger that bother me.

The scariest part for me was the plane ride up from takeoff to about 3000 ft. Got a bunch of jumpers crammed into a stripped down Cessna 182. Recipe for disaster. I wouldn’t do it again and I’m a licensed pilot.

Jumping out the back of a big aircraft, I wouldn’t mind that at all.

This video? Like I said it really looks cool. But I would be so woozy when I got up there and in such a mess, I’d probably fall off after passing out. Lol.
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Most folks tell me I'm fulla shit when I tell them that very thing. At 800' - 1350' AGL, walking out the door or off the ramp of a C130, yer so high up, the earth looks 2D & even moreso at 13,500'. But work 2 stories up on a ladder, or on my roof? Not. Gonna. Happen.

Hell no on base jumping. Something goes wrong, or you misread the wind & yer done. The rest of your airborne life is a much longer span when you start from a proper altitude.

Bungee jumping's fun, but I've only done it once & that with one of those big inflatable stuntman cushion things below. Thinking I'd pass on a bridge jump, though. Gotta say the falling sensation was no big deal, but the rebound was a whole new thing.
 
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