02-16-2021, 06:13 PM
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
[quote=davester]
Also, there wasn't much time to execute those maneuvers because we jumped from 1200', which gives you only about 12 seconds before you splat.
1200 feet? Holy shit! All the times I've jumped (tamdem), it was from at least 13,000 feet!
When you're a novice jumping solo, too high an altitude means that you can drift far off target because your chute deploys after about 4 seconds of free fall. That, and the fuel/pilot cost of climbing to 13,000', is why they have you jump from so low. They don't want you coming down in a river, or on a highway, or on top of a building.