My boss walked into the office yesterday and said that BE(British energy who we do a lot of work for) have been on the phone and they are asking for people to go on a complimentry sky diving day and my boss said since i do most of the work for BE he had nominated me! eeek!
Go for it , the best thing I ever did! mind you I broke my leg after 230 jumps did about 600 in total .
RUN AWAY AND HIDE!!!!!!!
Chicken!
Check it's a chute and not some kid's rucksack with his lunch in it, he might be trying to save on redundancy 
i bought my mate one for his 21st, i didnt realise they did revenge for £40 so i ended doing it as well... it was fun but i wouldnt do it again.
Tried to do a skydiving jump whilst in the forces but it got called off right at the last minuyte as we were sat in the plane ready to go because of
the foot and mouth thing, in case we landed elsewhere. Anyway during drills there was summat not quite right to me so I left the chute with one of the
trainers and went for break. When I came back and asked he said oh yes for some reason you were given a freefall instead of a static line!Eeek! And
then to top it off he said struggled to remove the handle thing and showed it me all twisted and had to boot the thing up and down the hall as the
chute wouldn't come out!EEeeekk! I think the law of averages states that you can only get away with a few jumps before summat goes wrong in
the same way as building our cars, try as best but summat'll go wrong somewhere along the line!
I work with an ex forces guy.
He was telling me about HALO jumps.
No way. Just no way
do it
DO IT but be aware that your probably not going to be covered by any insurance policy you have at the moment.
I've never done it but I always wondered if I could?? Costs are to high (financially) to justify it but if I was offered i'd go for it just
to see how strong my mind was.
Go for it, most dangerous part of the day is driving to the airhead! Have done about 100 jumps, some I payed for, most courtesy of HM Government into
water!
Chris
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Originally posted by chrsgrain
Go for it, most dangerous part of the day is driving to the airhead! Have done about 100 jumps, some I payed for, most courtesy of HM Government into water!
Chris
At least you can't break anything (too much) hitting water! You jettison one of the two 'risers' holding you to the parachute as your
legs touch the water, then the other one ASAP after that. Only real problem is if there is no wind, then the canopy can fall on your head - which is
bad!
Chris
I have friends that regularly talk about their 'mals'.
A 'mal' is skydive speak for a F@*CKED-UP jump, and I tell you what - it put me off for life even though deep down inside I'd love to
do it.
I did a couple years ago with a group from work.......
The 1st one was fine I was 3rd guy out, the second one I was last with no "friends" to gee me on it took a couple of false starts before I
went.
Great fun though, scared the xxxx out of me till the chute opened which was milliseconds but felt like a week.
Would I do it again ? Maybe.