When I arrived, I got on the board behind 4 other AFF jumpers. There were also a bunch of tandems ahead of me. OK, fine, I'm on the board, I'll get my shot.
Except for two problems:
1. Weather. Clouds limited visibility, and we had some higher winds (18 or 20 knots, but AFF students need winds less 16 or less).
2. No instructors. Well, not actually zero, but so few that we couldn't keep the plane going. This was probably also because of the weather. There was some rain in the morning, so a lot of people apparently wrote the day off as a loss.
It was pretty frustrating. Matt shut the plane down after every load. Why not, right? There wasn't going to be another load going right up. I just watched the clock ticking by, and watched the board sloooooowly get erased.
On the upside, I met some nice folks from Rockville, Rockville, and Hershey. I spent some time talking skydiving with Aaron & Jonathon. If these weren't all a fun bunch of people, I think I'd have packed it in.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment