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Are You Interested in Skydiving?

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Fly320s:
I did about a dozen jumps way back when.  I enjoyed it, but I had to decide whether to spend my money on skydiving or flying lessons and I chose flying.

Today, I'm more interested in paragliding or hanggliding.  The fun part is the flying under the canopy.

HankB:
During WWII my Dad was an Air Commando. Though he wasn't a paratrooper, during training he had to make a few parachute jumps. He didn't like it much - bailing out of a perfectly good airplane made no sense to him - but he said he was proud of the fact that unlike a few other soldiers, they never had to actually push him out of the aircraft.

HeroHog:
I never jumped out of perfectly good planes for "fun" and avoided boats that "sank on purpose".

Fly320s:
"Perfectly good" and "jump plane" are never used at the same time.   :police:

You could say, "good enough" or "we haven't crashed, yet."

Jim147:
Skydive KC comes down to the local airport a lot during the good weather months. The little girl and I used to go watch them when we could. I've spent thousands of hours in planes but the only chute I ever used was hook to the back of a car.

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