If anyone wants to know anything about skydiving, speed gliding, ground soaring,or paragliding I am the expert. I have over 5000 jumps.
I also enjoy ground soaring and speed gliding, better than paragliding. I am a paraglider P-4 pilot, I am a expert at ground soaring, I teach on weekends.
Any questions just ask. By the way if anyone who wants to do AFF it would be 100% worth doing a tandem! This way you have an idea what to expect, and the tandem master could have you do a few things in free fall to judge your awareness when you do AFF. Once you begin your AFF you will be with 2 other jumpers holding onto you and keep you stable in the air and ensure you pull your ripcord or throw out pilot chute. Nowa days skydiving is very safe, the rig you train with in your AFF has a RSL and a AAD. The RSL is a bridle line attached to your reserve, in case you cut away your main parachute during the sequence of this the RSL begins deploying your reserve, very effective and SAFE. The AAD will automatically open your reserve at a given altitude, if you continue to fall at a high rate of speed once you pass the pre-set altitude on the AAD, it will cut the closing loop that keeps your reserve in it's container, deployment begins. Generally, they are set @ 750 ft AGL. Depending upon where the drop zone is and how high the area is above sea level must be taken into account, meaning where I skydive we are 400 ft Above sea level, therefor when you look at your altimeter if it reads 450 ft your actually only 50 feet off the ground, they have a dial to pre-set in relation to sea level, you definetly need this instrument to be accurate!!!!!
Doug