trip Melbourne day 5 / skydiving

I had a decent sleep and went out of bed around 8. So it wasn't too early and when I went to the hall where everyone is packing and hanging around. I asked an instructor to do stage 5, that's the first 3-way. But she said I could do a few 2 ways with other people. And they don't had to be instructors.

After a bit asking around I found someone who wants to do an 2 way with me. And afterwards I owed him beer. He had almost 240 jumps and acts like a base for me to fly to. The persons who where going out first took a long time. She was trying to get out but her head got stuck under the arm of someone else and it took them 27 secs to get out of the plane. Then we did an unlinked exit and I dived towards him and overshot him first a bit. But came back and made a dock. Then did a turn, had to fall faster ad did some forward movement to dock again. At 5,500 I turned and tracked away. With the deployment I failed to grab my pilot chute and tried to throw it but it didn't worked and the second time I made sure I would throw it and I was opened at 2500ft so that's pretty low but I expected that. Then flew to the ground and landed ok. I could do it better to flare a bit earlier and get some lift.

Video: https://youtu.be/JNZhmOxs5uk

The other 2 way I did with another guy who had just over 50 jumps. We did also an unlinked exit and I tried to get to him. We almost had 1 dock. I was falling to slow and he was falling a bit faster. But it didn't worked out to get an proper dock. This time I flared a bit earlier and got that lift to have an perfect landing.

Then my B-rel 5. I went with an instructor and the other guy I did my first 2 way. We exit the plane at 15000ft and I had to dive down to them. It took me a while to get there in the right position and get a dock. Then we tried to get another formation but I was already floating away. Then I had to track of into the cloud and deploy my Parachute. I circled down from 3500ft till 2500ft. And then I saw finally something beneath me, it was the beach. So I was glad I was just in the right spot and not too far away from the dropzone. Just before I landed the Parachute dropped suddenly out of the sky. But I flared just in time and had a good landing. But it was pretty scary to jump through the cloud for the first time.

Video: https://youtu.be/wvaFj68GKSs

In the evening we had some beers and had a crazy night! One guy was so drunk, he fell asleep on his chair and we carried him with chair to his bed. HahaRead more