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anyone ever try indoor skydiving?
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I've been hearing about this...seems like it's a jet engine that lets you fly...sounds cool
back in college, i did tandem at about 5,000 ft (i think)...anyways it was great...for some reason, a jump that should have taken 3-4 mins, my first jump took 25 minutes...!
the thinking was that it rained the night before and the day's heat kept me up...i remember going up as i watched the altimeter hover around 2000 feet and go up to 2500 ft...
it was fun and i did a second jump that took 3 minutes as expected.
anyways anyone into this? btw, i am afraid of hieghts but it was fine...go figure
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25 minutes of free fall??? I dont think thats really possible, maybe from leaving the plane to hitting the ground, but not for purely free fall.
I was looking into sky diving and I would only get a minute of free fall, but I am already 5280 feet high...
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no not free fall, tandem...when you jump, the parachute opens automatically
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Originally Posted by ironknee
no not free fall, tandem...when you jump, the parachute opens automatically
uh, your thinking static line, with a tandem jump you jump with a trained person strapped to you, so you get free fall, but he triggers the chute...
Static line is attached to the plane, so when you jump your parachute gets deployed as you leave the proximity of the plane...
Zach
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Originally Posted by ironknee
I've been hearing about this...seems like it's a jet engine that lets you fly...sounds cool
Not a jet engine, a vertical wind tunnel with a giant propeller at the bottom. The air blows upward while you fly around inside the tunnel. I've seen one in Las Vegas but haven't tried it.
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I did it here in Vegas. (I Live here). I loved it so much I came back again. It was pretty expensive though.
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wtf? I went up about 15,000 ft and the entire thing took only about 5 minutes or so.
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Originally Posted by phantomdragonz
uh, your thinking static line, with a tandem jump you jump with a trained person strapped to you, so you get free fall, but he triggers the chute...
Static line is attached to the plane, so when you jump your parachute gets deployed as you leave the proximity of the plane...
Zach
i stand corrected...and yes it took 25 minutes
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Let's clarify, you had 25 minutes under canopy, not 25 minutes of freefall.
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 25 minutes of freefall. 
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interesting not my thing...
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maybe u could get 25 mins of freefall if u jumped from the international space station or something.
I so nearly tried freefalling but then my phone bill came through and that kinda left me without enough cash. I was gonna do a solo jump from 10,000 feet in the uk, was gonna be about 700 pounds, which is around 1200 dollars i think. It looks like a laugh, but a lot of money, i am gonna try and find some group doing it for charity and join them, but dont u guys think doing something like that for charity to basically get a free ride is really evil?
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My uncle tried indoor skydiving from a ladder once but the parachute didn't deploy in time.
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ok
i was static line jumping, "under canopy" for about 25 mins...the radio walkie talkie i had didn't work so i'm flying around this part when they were saying go there...later i was told that they were joking if i understood english...
but back to the indoor skydiving...
Originally Posted by stukdog
I did it here in Vegas. (I Live here). I loved it so much I came back again. It was pretty expensive though.
can you expand on this? i know it's crazy expensive like $50 for 3 minutes...but man it does sound like good fun
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Originally Posted by stukdog
I did it here in Vegas. (I Live here). I loved it so much I came back again. It was pretty expensive though.
I want to try it next time I'm in Vegas. If you don't mind me asking, what's expensive?
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Oops, didn't see this part of ironknee's post
Originally Posted by ironknee
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can you expand on this? i know it's crazy expensive like $50 for 3 minutes...but man it does sound like good fun
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