Been there, done this. Almost ate a dumpster in Boston once.
Bowl-shaped stadiums (and other buildings) can create absolute havoc with ground winds. Sudden expected crosswinds, shifts in wind direction, updrafts AND downdrafts. You turn into the wind on final, only now it's suddenly a 20 knot tailwind and you're honking across the ground at 30 knots with 15 feet of altitude left to solve your problem.
Because you're going to land, one way another, sunshine. That is a foregone conclusion.
Notice they didn't seem to be having any trouble until they were on final? Watch their canopies. They didn't start having any trouble until they were level with, or near level with that fucking stadium roofline.
Canopy collapse at 50' AGL can kill you just as dead as no canopy at all. Whatever else happens, gravity will still continue to function up to spec.
This is why you should always have a ground team on the DZ with a anemometer, WDI, colored smoke grenades (drop it in a bucket or trash can so the jumpers can see which way the smoke is swirling and have some idea of the current ground wind conditions) and a radio. And medics
Thank you. Well, tbf, take the total number of goats, then figure the percentage that are/were military free fall qualified, then the number of those that are also current qualified and experienced skydivers, then the number of THOSE that have been on free fall demonstration teams and the number probably isn't very big.
When bro hit the porta-john? That was his least bad option. I fucking felt that in my face.
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Bowl-shaped stadiums (and other buildings) can create absolute havoc with ground winds. Sudden expected crosswinds, shifts in wind direction, updrafts AND downdrafts. You turn into the wind on final, only now it's suddenly a 20 knot tailwind and you're honking across the ground at 30 knots with 15 feet of altitude left to solve your problem.
Because you're going to land, one way another, sunshine. That is a foregone conclusion.
Notice they didn't seem to be having any trouble until they were on final? Watch their canopies. They didn't start having any trouble until they were level with, or near level with that fucking stadium roofline.
Canopy collapse at 50' AGL can kill you just as dead as no canopy at all. Whatever else happens, gravity will still continue to function up to spec.
This is why you should always have a ground team on the DZ with a anemometer, WDI, colored smoke grenades (drop it in a bucket or trash can so the jumpers can see which way the smoke is swirling and have some idea of the current ground wind conditions) and a radio. And medics
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Very interesting.
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When bro hit the porta-john? That was his least bad option. I fucking felt that in my face.
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"Angels piss in the touch-hole of your firelock."
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**Well Done!**
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So they're retards.
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I know that sounds like I'm being a racist smartass, but that's what actually happened.
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