wthaynes http://wthaynes.com a personal skydiving blog Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:05:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Learned and Remember http://wthaynes.com/2011/11/learned-and-remember/ http://wthaynes.com/2011/11/learned-and-remember/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:49:25 +0000 knoxlogic http://wthaynes.com/?p=30

So .. .. .. So far everything is going great! (for the most part) – My biggest thing I need to learn and remember to do is just RELAX!  I am to busy thinking about everything I need to do and not JUST DOING IT as more second nature.  My last jump (C2) I was able not to spin the ‘FCK’ out.  I was turning slightly from left to right and back until my instructor got in front of me and threw his hands up in a “STOP” motion and for some reason I DID!

Maybe it was just the mental image of seeing somebody tell me to relax in the air, but once he did that I was fine and able to just free-fall and maintain belly to earth stability!  ADVICE from a newbie: As soon you exit, mentally vision yourself being stable and relax and just have fun! :-)

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Jump 5 – 10/30/2011 | Cessna 206

Equipment – Icon-250

Altitude @ 11,500

- Operated A/C Door and Observed spot.

- Great exit and response to “legs out”.  Circle of awareness @ 10,000`

- Maintained solo free fall BEFORE practice pulls.

- Stable on heading can be improved some with more relaxed body position

- Unintentional 90 degree left turn during turning of head to check altitude

- Good altitude awareness thru out entire dive

- Locked on at 6000` and waved off and pulled

- Good canopy flight and control with a stand-up landing!

 

PASSED and CLEARED for D1 (again) :-)

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Jump 4 – 10/23/2011 | Cessna 206

Equipment – NAV-260

Altitude @ 11,500

- Great Climbout

- Kicked on exit

- 1 great practice pull

- Spent most dive doing toe taps and being way too busy and thinking about legs too much.  Needs to relax and arch more.

- Very altitude aware

- GREAT body position and stability once locked on | waved off and pulled great

- Nice canopy control with very limited radio talk

FAILED D1 – Back to the “skipped” C2

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After 2 weekends of being on “wind delay”, I finally got to do my C1 jump!  Went awesome.  Last jump with 2 instructors and went good.

 

 

 

Jump 3 – 10/18/2011 | Cessna 206

Equipment – NAV-260

Altitude @ 11,500

- Good Climbout / Count / Exit

- Was given shake for arch and responded great.  Also given legs out and responded with perfect body position.

- 2 good practice pulls

- Week turns

- Locked on at 6000`, waved off at 5500` and pulled

- “Get in that play area and fly the pattern” – “SUPER AWESOME JUMP!”

 

Skipped C2 and cleared for D1 :-)

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Jump 2 – 10/2/2011 | Cessna 206

Equipment – NAV-260

Altitude @ 11,500

- Good Climbout

- Do a more pronounced count

- 3 good practice pulls

- Locked on @ 6000` but looked away and finally pulled at around 4500`

- Good job under canopy and nice PLF

 

CLEARED FOR C1

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Passed – On to B!  HAHAHA

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