Friday, March 13, 2009

Update

Hi,

Just a quick update... laptop batteries low...
Yesterday we had our planned day-off. We were allowed to sleep a little bit longer. After a short running session in the morning, we left for the dropzone, where Luc needed to have his rigs adapted. He was having hard openings on his Spectre (can you imagine ?) and wanted to replace the pilot chute. He was getting tired of decellarating from 180 kph to 0 kph in about 2/3 of a second.

After that we took the car and drove to Phoenix, grabbing breakfast on the way. We went to a shopping mall and bought some Vans. The rest of the day was filled with hanging around and basically doing nothing.

Today (Friday 13th !!!) we have made 12 jumps. One jump we landed out real far, because of the lights not working any more in the plane. Airspeed junped out before us and they did not know when to go.

On our 7th jump I had to cut away my main. Linetwist and back into freefall - yeehaa ! Probably went unstable while pulling...

On top of that, the windtunnel broke down and we were told that our tunneltime would be cancelled.

Really Friday the 13th.

Still some good news :
- our exits are coming together finally and we feel a lot more confident
- our tunneltime tonight is not cancelled, since the tunnel has been repaired
- we are at the terrace, having a drink in the sunshine

Another update with pictures will follow, maybe still today.

Food coming, need to eat.

Later !

Sven

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