Egyptian Fighter!

Sky Diving Part 2

Hello all,

As I promised you before, here you're the second episode in my first sky diving which will contain the whole story :)

As I told you before I've chosen to jump the AFF jump, through these jump and without going into much details, the whole process is like that:

1. After we reach the jumping altitude (13,500 feet), I go to the door, and one instructor will be on my left and the other on my right.
2. I stand on the door and my face towards the plane front side, then:
   A- Look to my right instructor and say: Check, then he tells me OK.
   B- Look to my left instructor and say Check, then he tells me OK.
   C- Take a look outside the plane to make sure everything is OK.
   D- Go down.
   E- Go up.
   F- Then jump (and jump as Iam standing in order to maintain the correct position during my diving).
3. immediately after jumping, I read my current altitude and say it to my left instructor then my right one.
4. I begin simulating the process of opening my parachute three times.
5. During the 3 times of simulation, I peek a quick read of my current altitude.
6. One I reach the altitude of 6000 feet, I keep reading till I reach 5,500 feet and then say bye bye and open my parachute.
7. Once the parachute is deployed, I do several checks to make sure that it's going well, and if any of these checks fails, I try to make some stuff to correct it, and if fails again, I open the reserve parachute, and do the same steps, and once I get sure that everything is OK, I free my guidance ropes.
8. Using my guidance ropes, I guide my parachute to the landing spot.

And here you're what I've done from those :D :

1. I made this.
2. I didn't made any of these steps, simply because when I went to stand at the door, I found that if I did this I will fall, and I've tried my best to tell my instructor that let's jump without making all these, but in vain (you'll see this in video) because the noise was so loud that she couldn't hear me, so I tried my best to stand on the door but once I put my feet there, and I felt like falling, I made a jump without even telling them :D (but cool, it seems that they were prepared for this action ), also I have jumped using my head, and as you'll see in the video, I was falling and my face heading to the sky, which is not the correct direction, so as you'll see, I used my legs and moved them so quickly along with my hands to rotate myself to the correct direction till I succeeded :)
3. I read it, but because we were falling so fast I couldn't talk, I felt like can't produce any sound.
4. I did 2 only and the third one was in-complete.
5. Done.
6. Done.
7. Done.
8. Done.

And now, leave you to the video, enjoy your time ;)

Sky Diving, feel the gravity

Hello all,

Today I did a very crazy process :D, one of my friends here, was looking to make a sky diving, and knowing the fact that Iam dying to make it too, I joined him in this :)

When we knew the exact place we'll do it in, we were having two options, either to do it in the Tandem way or do it as Accelerated Free Fall way, everyone from those has its pros and cons, so let's give you a quick preview for both:

Tandem Pros:

1. Very small preparation and time till jump (about 10 min).
2. Don't worry about anything, you just look around and don't do anything.
3. Cheaper.

Tandem Cons:

1. Knowing the fact the it's easier, then actually you learn nothing.
2. Not really free fall, as someone will be sticking into your back, and for this extra weight, you'll have some thing like small parachute to decrease your acceleration to about 0.1-0.2 G.

Accelerated Free Fall Pros:

1. Real free fall with G acceleration.
2. Learn how to do stuff by yourself and how everything is working.

Accelerated Free Fall Cons:

1. You must care about everything, and actually you'll do and know a lot of stuff which is not easy at all.
2. Accelerating down with g is great, but put in your mind that you'll have no chance to breath well, your face will be like water and you'll feel with hugeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee pressure on your face and stomach.
3. More Expensive than Tandem.

So putting all these in mind, we decided to do it in the accelerated Free Fall way, so I'll leave the talk about this part to the next episode and I'll leave you to the pictures, enjoy :)

Next time I'll tell you about the weird stuff I did up there and how everything is working and also the big surprise, a video for the whole process ;), but for now, just enjoy the photos with small resolution for internet :)

http://www.mmeshref.com/album/Sky%20Diving/index.html