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 Basic Black
Location: Southern Ontario
Gender: Male
Jumps from perfectly good airplanes.
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< on 12/10/2003 10:33 PM >
|  | | | Has anyone else ever entertained the thought of jumping into a site? I mean, not that it has any useful purpose or advantage, but it's one of those romantic ideas you get sometimes...and think of the rush you'd get
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1993gt40
Location: Austin, Texas.
Gender: Male
| | Re: Airborne UE
<Reply # 1 on 12/10/2003 11:05 PM >
| | | | A good friend of mine is a flight instructor. I'm planning on getting my VFR pilot license after the first of the year because it will cost me nothing. Once I do that I'll scout from an airplane, but probably not jump into a site.
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HauntedPA
  
Location: Anywhere and Everywhere
Gender: Female
What do you mean the rum is gone?!
| | Re: Airborne UE
<Reply # 2 on 12/10/2003 11:21 PM >
| | | | I could see this being useful if say...the location is out in the middle of nowhere or possibly an island. It is a cool idea though. Just dropping in from the sky to explore. The trick is getting back out...
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Very Noble Donor
Location: South Carolina
Gender: Male
What is a lion, king of the savannah, when hes at the south pole?
| | Re: Airborne UE
<Reply # 3 on 12/11/2003 1:48 AM >
| | | | A while back when I was still flying I had dreams about putting a few of my friends out over this island that house uninhabbited houses on it. Too many trees though. That and securing gear to get off the island for the jump would be a bitch. Also I couldnt jump then.
"If the threat level goes up its probably because of me." "I am looking for a girl who enjoys headbutting beltbuckles" |
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Caput_58
Location: Virginia, USA
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Airborne UE
<Reply # 4 on 12/11/2003 2:23 AM >
| | | | Hey, lets take a slightly dangerous hobby, like UE, and see if we can make it a bit more dangerous... If only we could integrate snake handling and subway surfing, it would be perfect.
In all seriousness, I too would like to finish getting my pilot's license. I love the idea of popping up to pittsburg or detroit for a day or two. But like all my plan's in life, it relies on getting lots of money. Anyone know any rich single women?
Caput_58
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RRTX
Location: Fort Worth, TX
Gender: Male
| | Re: Airborne UE
<Reply # 5 on 12/11/2003 4:34 AM >
| | | | I was Airborne when I was in the Army and I've done a bunch of sport jumps, I've done mass tactical jumps from 800 feet at night. I don't see it ever being a good idea for a bunch of reasons. The majority of UE sites are in pretty urbanized areas so that brings up a lot of issues in itself. If you do it during the day you are going to get seen, no doubt about it and jumping into a place not designated as a drop zone is likely to get you arrested. At night the danger level goes up about a million times. The only people that have jumped at night are usually ex-military, there are very few sport jumpers that have. There are way too many things out there waiting to impale you or get you hung up in the air if you can't see them, especially in an urban area. It sounds fun, but the risks are too great just for wanting to explore something
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Titch
Location: Belgium-Liege (Europe)
Gender: Male
Member of Green Explorers
| |  | Re: Airborne UE
<Reply # 6 on 12/11/2003 8:18 AM >
| | | | Yes RRTX you're right. If you jump by day, you will get caught and be in serious trouble....
However, I have my commercial pilot licence and sometimes when flying with a friend I'm looking for places I've heard about and checking the general topography, so after when I come back with my car and I already know where to enter (more or less).
It's a good preparation before exploring.... but the cost is heavy!!
Green Explorers are recruitings new members.
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xrahy
Noble Donor
| | Re: Airborne UE
<Reply # 7 on 12/11/2003 3:32 PM >
| | | | This thread seems to have alot in common with BASE jumping- best of both worlds-infiltration and airborne excitement!!
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Basic Black
Location: Southern Ontario
Gender: Male
Jumps from perfectly good airplanes.
| | Re: Airborne UE
<Reply # 8 on 12/11/2003 5:18 PM >
| | | | Right, it would be almost impossible to pull off, but for those interested, here's what it'd take:
1. Class B license.....................................$4000
2. Your own rig........................................$3000
3. A pilot crazy enough to fly you and your buddy......$100
4. Getting a nasty bruise from hiting the 172's gear
on the way out.........................Free
5. Landing alive.......................................Three Hail Marys
6. Having the rig you trash packed last night mal the next morning*...
PRICELESS
[last edit 12/22/2003 5:21 PM by Basic Black - edited 1 times]
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RRTX
Location: Fort Worth, TX
Gender: Male
| | Re: Airborne UE
<Reply # 9 on 12/11/2003 9:38 PM >
| | | | Posted by Basic Black
6. Having the rig you trash packed last night malfunction the next morning*...
PRICELESS
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PRICELESS and 5 bucks for some new underwear lol
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Mark
Very Noble Donor
Location: South Carolina
Gender: Male
What is a lion, king of the savannah, when hes at the south pole?
| | Re: Airborne UE
<Reply # 10 on 12/11/2003 9:42 PM >
| | | | I laughed... I cryed... I wish night jumps were easier
"If the threat level goes up its probably because of me." "I am looking for a girl who enjoys headbutting beltbuckles" |
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asdafaf
Location: oe'r yonder
I have always been here before.
| | | Re: Airborne UE
<Reply # 11 on 12/11/2003 10:56 PM >
| | | | It's even better if the site you are exploring is underground, and you fall right into the open manhole. I do that all the time.
I'm looking for software engineers to hire at Amazon. |
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MacGyver
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
Gender: Male
"Someone go find me a paperclip, a D-cell battery, and a cheese grater"
| | Re: Airborne UE
<Reply # 12 on 12/12/2003 8:28 AM >
| | | | Hell, Max, didn't you fall into a manhole one morning when you were groping towards the clothes dryer in your dark basement looking for some clean clothes? Good times...
Like a fiend with his dope / a drunkard his wine / a man will have lust for the lure of the mine
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