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RE: Bucket list: Skydiving ☑️

in #travel7 years ago (edited)

Good for you, I'm glad you had fun with your bucket list pursuits. However I have to point out that sky-diving isn't really flying, it's falling. If you want to replenish your bucket list add paragliding - it also has a tandem option to try it out on a good day you'll be able to climb up into the sky like a bird. Experienced pilots can fly for many hours at a time, climb to the edge of legal airspace (18,000 feet in the US - with oxygen of course), have even flown over Everest, and travel literally hundreds of miles cross-country.

We get quite a few sky-divers take up paragliding because they enjoy the chute time so much. If you take lessons then within just a few days you should be flying longer than the average sky-diver ever falls for. Within weeks you could be ridge soaring like a bird and only coming down because you need a bathroom break (yes experienced pilots have a solution for that).

Here's a post I did about paragliding at a Northern California site called Hat Creek: https://steemit.com/paragliding/@o1o1o1o/paragliding-at-hat-creek

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@o1o1o1o, paragliding is also on my bucket list. I know flying and free-falling are completely different experience , but these few seconds of free fall are more thrilling as you experience 9.8G

I tried indoor skydiving - it was quite a blast! (pun intended). No freefall though. If you're a thrill seeker then you'll learn acrobat paragliding. You can easily pull enough g to black out if you're not careful, and part of the thrill is trying not to "gift wrap" yourself in the wing. It's not really my cup of tea - a few 360s and wing overs are enough for me.

Some cool PG videos (acro and freestyle):



These videos are awesome, but require high level of skill. I would for sure go for it someday. Following you 😀

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