This year it seemed a lot more people were involved. The last I heard almost 400 people registered for the event. I got in five jumps, jumping the CASA, Otter and helicopter. Unfortunately I overslept and didn’t make it to the balloon.
Here is a video of one of my jumps, with other footage from Skyfest included. Thanks to Adam Gardner for flying video with me.
Here is a newscast of the event.
I haven’t gotten to jump in three weeks due to rainy weather on the weekends, but I would like to thank Louis French for his time to help me figure out my packing problem. I was having line twists on almost every jump. I spoke to a lot of people and asked a lot of questions and could not figure it out. Louis gave me some tips and made some suggestions after watching me pack and I’ve jumped my pack jobs several times with consistent straight on heading openings and no line twists. A definite improvement and complete turn around. Thank you Louis!
This Saturday, Louis is taking some of us over to the Paraclete XP Wind Tunnel. I purchased 10 minutes of time in the tunnel as it is very expensive and that was all that I could afford right now. He will be taking more groups in the future and I may purchase a 20 minute slot next time. I should have some video of my time in the wind tunnel afterwards.
I used some photos of co-workers in these JibJab and Elfyourself videos for a laugh around the offices.
Here is an Elfyourself video with Jay, one of the funniest guys I have ever worked with and his co-worker James.
Now, on to the JibJab videos…