I jumped back in 1978 before tandem jumping. They had a tether connected between the parachute and plane's strut. When I'd dropped enough the tether opened the chute. We trained for 3 hours on how to jump, learning to check the chute so, if it didn't properly open, we could open the reserve chute.

Well...I must have passed out. The opening of the main chute brought me to conciousness but I never checked it to make sure it was opened properly. It was quite an experience. One of our group broke his leg on landing.

We were ready to do it again the next week but it was too windy for newbies so we planned to do it again in the spring. By then, I'd had enough time to think about it and never did it again. I'm glad I did it but I must have been crazy.

I was "jumping" in the mid 70's , I LOVED IT!

Why would anyone jump out of a perfectly good plane?....Not me for sure!!!

Thanks for posting your video, it gave me some idea of what it might be like. Congrats to you!

I sky-dived about 30 years ago and absolutely loved it! floated a good 10 minutes before landing (did a little butt bumping on the landing!). I would love to do a tandem jump but don't think these old bones and back could handle another jump!

my DH and DD did it a could of years ago. All I could think of when they were in the plane was "My whole family is up there!" i like my feet on the ground. I admire anyone who can do things like this. Congratulations!