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Wow! Congratulations...for getting the nerve up, and for enjoying the experience, and for being here to tell about it...lol. I gotta admit I've never even been in a plane because of just watching them in the sky...yikes for me, let alone jumping. But great admiration for those who do, for work or recreation.

I knew an old lady named Nellie in one of the places where I grew up who always sat behind the bushes with her double barrel laid across her lap. A little ways away they would sometimes have people parachuting on an old moonshine runway for certain celebrations, etc. And she always growled out about how she dared one of them whippersnappers to land on her place and she'd shoot 'em before they got to the ground...lol. Of course she just always freaked me out because my great aunt and I would walk along the railroad tracks to sell eggs and she jump out to talk to my great aunt and I'd have to try to hide behind my super skinny aunt while Nellie growled about how she was gonna shoot the next so and so who did this and that...lol...well the story could get longer but I realize, once again, I've veered way off topic.

But I am in admiration of your bravery and glad you enjoyed the experience. Thanks for sharing it with us. If you ever hear of me planning such an "outing," I'll probably die of a heart attack before I even make it onto the plane...lol.

I remember reading in an American sky diving magazine about an elderly lady that did a tandem jump for her birthday. I’m not sure if it was for her 102nd birthday or not but it was a great age, certainly a century. The amazing thing is that she did a tandem for her 80th birthday and vowed to do a tandem for every birthday since. As you would expect she was treated with extreme care!

I saw something about an elderly lady on the news who did that on her birthdays...lol...her family thought she was nuts but she was having a blast and says she'll never quit doing it.

HOLY MOLY You're my hero!! I had a hard time flying to California this year and I stayed in the plane...lol.

No prob Erockin, you just got to open the door and leap out!
(* with parachute)

Can't be any worse than a big, scary roller coaster drop when the track falls apart.

stumpkicker - I think you probably mean you CAN scratch skydiving off your bucket list, not that you CAN'T. As the original poster, you can still edit the title if you want. Glad you survived and enjoyed the experience.

I took it to mean that he CAN'T scratch it off because it was too much fun, and once wasn't enough .....

Yeah...seemed to me he was saying it was on his bucket list, but then after he tried it, it's STILL on his bucket list.

Maybe so. I don't think I've ever had a bucket list - I've just tried to make the best of what's come my way, so I'm no expert.

I’m still saving for up for a BUCKET. Maybe this Christmas

Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane? Pass.

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Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane? Pass.

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Perfectly good plane's are the only planes to jump out of. I remember a plane that stalled at 5000 feet just after a student jumped out. We were all looking out the window at the student going up instead of down. The pilot regained control after 6 seconds and we were at 2000ft. After the climb back to 5000 feet we couldn't get out of the plane quick enough. It was a Cessna 205 which is the under powered family sedan version of the 206 workhorse. I never even got into a 205 since that day. 

WHOA! Scary.

I just don't have the stomach for it, sorry to say. Both in terms of guts and airsickness/seasickness.

Doug, I don't think I ever had the time to sit down and figure myself up a bucket list...for me it's always seemed like living one day at a time.

I'm so scared of roller coasters and airplanes...lol. Grandson participates in a program that allows them to fly a plane...the last time he flew one (with instructor inside too), he was up for an hour and they were having him do some type dipsy-doodles and stuff...we could watch online and finally I realized I was gonna get sick if I kept watching that. I couldn't watch...it looked to me like they were nearly crashing, over and over and over, for an hour...lol. I had to turn it off.

Well theres the bucket list one tells everybody about, maybe even write down for posterity. And then there's the secret one we have in our heads!

Public - Go on a mission in Africa to save a village from drought

Private - own a brassier store

Public - Play a 1 million dollar violin

Private - Throat punch the stupidest politician in office in my country

still not jumping out of any airplanes!

My bucket list consists of the names of a thousand or so fiddle tunes ......

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Maybe so. I don't think I've ever had a bucket list - I've just tried to make the best of what's come my way, so I'm no expert.

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You'll first have to put making a bucket list; on top of your bucket list.

There's a Whole in my bucket.

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stumpkicker - I think you probably mean you CAN scratch skydiving off your bucket list, not that you CAN'T. As the original poster, you can still edit the title if you want. Glad you survived and enjoyed the experience.

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Hi Doug,

How do I edit the title, I can't figure it out.

thanks,

Rick

Rick, its only available to you as the original poster, so I had to go look at my most recent topic.
If you go to your original post, in the lower right hand corner there should be a couple icons, including a pencil for edit. If you click it you should be able to edit the entire text of the post, including the title.
Glad you enjoyed the experience!

This is on my wall in the living room, in the dog training zone.

I understand this 100%.

Fiddle was a dream that came true.
Linux was something I could never get out of my mind. Now I flash tablets, and I hope to soon be ready to see if I can modify existing custom ROM builds myself.
Ham radio always seemed like magic to me. Now I'm a proud operator, waiting for my AnyTone 878UVII Plus to arrive and who knows, maybe that HAREC license will one day be mine.
I've wanted a dog of my own since I was a kid — a big one, since we only had little dogs growing up. I've shared my life with dogs rather than with people, and I've had five different working/guarding dogs so far in this life.

We don't know what is still waiting for us in this life. We can only try to steer it in directions that appeal to us so strongly that following them feels like a stroke of luck.

Congratulations on your jump!

Always do what you cannot get out of your mind. There is only one life, one chance to live it to the fullest. And I have a theory of my own: everyone can reach whatever they are looking for, as long as they are given the keys to the door.

So now I'm confused. Is skydiving officially off of the bucket list? Or is it still one for a future thrill in the open skies?

I guess I do actually have a bucket list at the moment...and that is to be able to afford to change my rusty strings on all my instruments...tune them up, tune up my totally rusty playing skills, which were never great enough for the neglect they've been through...and PLAY! I would like to be able to buy a looping machine too. There ya go. I now have a bucket list.