I'd probably like skydiving. Did more bungie jumping back in the day.
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Who's still riding? (Fall & Winter 2024 Edition)
- Thread starter PrivatePilot
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now you've gon don it. I'm hooked.You can spend hours watching people fumble around on the hairpins!
That guy has the same kind of dry, sarcastic humour that I'm often accused of...
I need to go there and get one of those stickers.
Right?
It's like a Killboy sticker for Europe!
We put our own sticker up on the Stelvio sign:
Mad Mike
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I'm with you! I've done plenty of dangerous (and some stupid) things in this life -- I've never, not ever for 1 second, wanted to jump from a flying airplane.Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope.
And nope.
With a nope cherry on top.
I’ll fly the plane. I’m sure as hell not jumping out of a perfectly functional aircraft though.
Or jump with a bungee.
LOL. Funny where we each draw our lines.
I wanted to go skydiving a few years ago, but there's quite a lot of jumps you need to complete first, with tandem and then static-line until you get to pull your own chute.
I get it, it's for safety reasons, but I kinda like the free-fall alone aspect of it and would want to do it sooner rather than $$$ later...
yar.
Last i heard you need 200 solo jumps before anyone will even sell you a wing suit.
I'm sure someone will be willing to let you 'fall' out of an airplane with a parachute, if you sign every 'release from liability' form on the planet.
Key thing is to make sure you jump over some place cool, if it IS the last thing you do on this planet then go out looking at something neat.
Victoria Falls (One of the natural 7 wonders of the world), Zimbabwe - 2018
P.S. Still riding!
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Haha, cool!
My first jump was a GTAM group ride/jump day. Get enough people here together and another could be planned for next year.
It’s easier just to jump tandem on your first. You won’t notice the other person back there and they help scoot you through the open door when it’s time which can be beneficial. I had 63sec of free-fall on that first jump (I paid for the video).
I’d imagine there’s nothing like the feeling of sh!tting your pants immediately after jumping out of the plane as well, because that’s probably what I’d immediately do.
I’m sure you can buy them on Temu or AliExpress. What could possibly go wrong.
Especially after you’ve sh!t your pants.
Translation?
Gaoler
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Back in my military days whenever we'd encounter members on the now defunct Queens Own Rifles regiment who were Airborne and wore burgandy berets, we would mock and cojole them for their parachuting and general pomposness.
'Good old toxic masculine ball busting.
On occasion, someone would take it too seriously and start a fist fight.
When we would hear the Military Poice were called, we would all evacuate the area so as to avoid the ramifications of our banter.
Defunct?
Gaoler
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Sorry, I get them mixed up with the CPR...
The QOR are indeed not defunct.
The CPR however... Are.
*We're talking like 40 years ago when beers in the junior ranks mess where $2.
I have a hard enough time remembering **** that happened last week!
Gaoler
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In pace paratus my dude
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