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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,977
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Once you do a few jumps, you can easily do 4-6 a day. It does not take that long to prep and repack.
Regarding the round chutes. Many of us started out on these and I hate them, and refuse to use one today unless its to save my life. You land like a sack of potatos and little or no control. The squares out now are excellent and you fly it like a plane.
The big rush is in the freefall, and once the chute opens its mostly over. I jumped out of a Russian turboprop years ago in Poland and had a 1+45 minute freefall. What a rush... nothing like it and why I still enjoy doing a jump from time to time.
joeA
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