GREEN LIGHT GREENLIGHT JUMP! JUMP! JUMP!
Are you crazy, the plane is still flying?
They don't make an airplane big enough to hold all the people it would take to throw me out of it. I bungee jumped out of a hot air balloon once, but I ain't never ever gonna jump out of anything with a parachute.
Did you jump?
A little, at first...
My son is enroute 82nd via a school or two. He really got beat up in jump school. Landed off site in a quarry or somewhere--took a nasty knot on the noggin that he said put him out for awhile.
One jump he claimed he hit an air bubble and drifted like crazy with some NCO yelling to "get down here maggot".
Cracked a tooth with a D ring. About half was gone when he came limping home.
The idea with the old canopy is you come down rapidly and really cannot maneuver much---maybe less likely to hit some other novice than if you were under a more shapely canopy.
All that for a lousy 125 a month or thereabouts. No thanks--made my flight pay days seem a heck of a lot less risky than that--and the few times bullets were flying I was fairly confident they did not have my name on them. How you get guys to do that for peanut pay is beyond me. My son is only half crazy and even he figured out that it was not a real smart activity.
And to add to the previously cited jump jitters--my kid deployed his aux chute when he had a partial streamer. Said a NCO showed up and was chewing his rear for not working harder to clear the main chute. Now the PR riggers would have to do extra work and would he maybe like to be invited to a PT party later? My son said the guy seemed genuinely hacked, and not just a show.
125 a month. Ptoooey