Thursday, July 2, 2009

Will I make the AFF Cat A jump today?

(backdated post)

Hoping for better weather today. When I got to Chambersburg, there were patches of blue sky, but a lot of pretty low clouds. Since skydiving is a VRF (visual flight requirement) flight, the rule is that you have to be able to see where you're going. You don't jump out of a Cessna with a cockpit full of instruments!

The forecast was iffy. There was a reasonable chance that the weather would clear, so I hung around. I sat in on parts of the same AFF Category A training from June with Drew from Severna Park. I took a long lunch break and went down to Wilson College to take a hike on the nature trail and grab a geocache. I gave Tonya the third degree about what it takes to complete the Class A license requirements, at least until I thought I should let her get her own work done.

Unfortunately, the weather never cleared. It wasn't a total loss, because I got some refresher training and picked up some info about what to expect in the upcoming months.

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