Category: Skydiving

Six inches of fresh wet snow, cold temperatures for the next three days plus frozen restrooms and a muddy parking lot were enough to convince me that maybe we shouldn’t skydive this weekend.  It was a difficult decision but in the end I told the pilot to stay in Texas for another week and We would try again next Friday.  I sure the local skydivers will howl, bitch and moan but it just didn’t make sense to trash our beautiful grass runway by trying to get on it too early.  So I get another week off of trying to avoid doing the work around the house I’ve been putting off all winter…..great.

This is getting ridiculous.  I’ve got twenty employees who only make money when we’re skydiving and so far this season they’ve made nothing.  Jump masters can’t jump, pilots can’t fly, packers have nothing to pack and video editors have nothing to edit.  Getting snow this late in the season would be funny if so many families didn’t depend on the income to feed their families.  I’ve gone ahead and scheduled the plane we’re leasing for the season to show up this Friday in the hopes my runway is dried enough to use this weekend.  If not there is another airport close by that we can use.  Keep your fingers crossed.

It’s April 19 for crying out loud, will someone tell me why I’m waking up to more snow instead of warm sunny skies?  This winter just won’t let go and as of now we are a full month late in opening my skydiving school.  I don’t know if I can take it any more, especially since while I’m freezing my butt off two of my fellow CB Aviation pilots are flying a BE-1900 from South Africa to Vancouver.   I hate them.

I’ve been talking to a few of my wingsuit friends about doing some close proximity flying i.e. flying near stuff like cliffs and the ground.  I’m really looking forward to it but you never have to worry about me trying something like this.

Proof that you can skydive on Mars.  I mean why else would you go there?

Astronomers capture Curiosity’s parachute flapping in the wind-on Mars

Just a little skydiving video to start your day.

The snow is melting fast, it won’t be long now!

Even if you’re not into watching lots of wingsuit videos you’ve got to check out this one at about the the minute mark.  It gives you a great perspective of what they’re really doing.

I do like flying my wingsuit but it’ll be a while before I fly it between two buildings.  I may be crazy but I’m not stupid, well not that stupid anyway.