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Why would anyone
of a perfectly good t
"For the adrenaline rush," said Chris Rot
ing for the first time. "Tve been wanting to d(
"I want to feel the ride," said Manny Cordei
Experienced skydiver Jenny McCallen sj
and a half years ago, and I just kept coming
dictive."
Tony Civitella, an instructor who has be
years, agrees. Tm still addicted after 700 ju
"If s just something you have to try," said
has completed almost 50 jumps.
Despite the reasons new and experienced si
ing from airplanes, I couldn't help questioning
when the door of the small Cessna opened,
earth, 11,000 feet below, and my instructor sh
to skydive?"
If end of the semester boredom is setting
seems like a replay of the last, relief is only 2
born Skydiving Center, located in the small \
instruction in three types of skydiving and1
from a plane the day you show up.
Skydiving students arrive around 9:301
around 10 a.m. Students choose from three1
Static line - Divers are strapped into a
to the plane with a cord. At 3,500 feet, the
cord automatically deploys the parachute aft
of freefall. This is a good way to learn to skyc
Tandem - Divers are attached to an in;
the airplane exit, the freefall and the opening
student gets to ride worry-free, or as close as
tree, when jumping trom a plane.
Accelerated Freefall - This method take
Two instructors jump alongside students, r
falling properly as they reach speeds of 120 r
structors stay with students through the 60-sec
and make sure they deploy the parachutes,
lease the parachute at the right time, an in
them.
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e price down to $60. Accelerated freefall jumps are
, but credit cards were invented for once-in-a-lifetime
i like these (that's what I told myself, anyway),
dents decide how they want to jump, instruction beusually
takes around five hours, with a break for
he length of the class depends on the number of stulow
quickly they catch on.
on includes practicing the plane exit, simulating the
le laying on a small bench, and simulating the para- 1
vhile hanging in a harness. Though this practice is
like the real thing (how could it be?), the instructors
oeat each step with students until they can go through
i without problems.
;tice includes acting out what to do in case various
rise. When students know how to handle every situme
to put the pack on and load up the airplane,
sn't thinking of all I had learned as I looked out at
n, a 2000-jump skydiving expert and the owner of
anding outside the plane and holding on to the wing,
structor ripped my white-knuckled hands from the
plane and pushed me out to Bill, who was grinning
next thing I knew
m hurtling facetoward
the earth.
me thumbs up.
/1 was clinging to a bar beneath the wing, flapping
ing wind. I thought of what my instructor Tony had
class. If you're out on the wing, you're going. If s too
a student back in the plane." Now there was only one
; thing I knew I was hurtling face-first toward the
i parachute opened at 4,500 feet, I began drifting to
at a peaceful 20 miles an hour with the entire city of
pread out below me. Only then did I understand why
se to jump out of functioning airplanes. Ifs a feeling
I else, of freedom and exhilaration.
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