Video: There's Always One

[FlyTexas]

Just needed a little push.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeWVshynShA

Brian

[Airspeed]

Maybe he saw something that the pushers didn't?
I wonder how often that happens.
I reckon I'd be a good candidate for freezing at the door.

[FlyTexas]

Good question Mike. I've never been in the military, but have jumped as a civilian. I posed the same question to my jumpmaster back in the day...Does anyone freeze at the door? Her reply (yep she was a lady jumpmaster ) was that she never had anyone freeze at the door. She told me that if a person returned to their 'first jump' training class after the lunch break, they would jump. It seems that lunch was when the student decided, in their heart, if they truly wanted to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. She was correct, too. After our lunch break I noticed that our class was short a couple of students.

Brian

[Scorpius]

Rule 1. Never jump out of a serviceable aeroplane.

Nev

[Nigel H-J]

Our gliding club was based at RAF Swinderby and every so often the Territorial Army would come with their big balloon and basket and then they would be winched up to around 1,000ft where they made their jumps. One soldier who was a bit on the short and skinny side made his jump (we could not launch whilst they were jumping) so we watched with amusement as he sailed upwards instead of down (caught in a strong thermal) and could hear the sergeant bawling at him until he finally came down to earth.

Nigel