2 jumps, packed, but yep, wind again

Jumped twice today. Both times were full King Air loads.

On the first, I followed a 5-way out. I mostly watched them, did some turns just with my legs, and tracked. Landed the 240 right in front of the hangar. The winds were coming over the buildings, and we landed heading toward the buildings.

I packed the rig with some help from John Howard.

I did a floating exit on the 2nd jump. I felt like I was a little far from the airport. First out was a 5-way that took a long time to set up in the door, then a 2-way, then Chris, then me. The combination of being long and jumping a rig I packed made me decide to open a little higher (5,000 instead of 4,000). I got a hard left turn when it opened, but other than that, it was a perfectly good canopy. Landing was toward the buildings again. I slightly misjudged my downwind leg, but I was going to be in front of the other hangar. No big deal. Then I saw the plane taxiing, and I really didn't want to be anywhere near him, so I let the downwind leg go a little longer and landed on the far side of the runway. In retrospect, I should have known the plane would not go past the taxiway. Oh well.

I packed the rig on my own.

The winds went to 17, never dropped again until I had to leave.