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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: luckee on June 29, 2002, 08:05:17 PM
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"Just wanted to show you guys a video that I took this Saturday (15 June 2002). I am sure that you have heard about the fires here near Denver. We were jumping at Longmont, just north of Denver, my home DZ. There were slurry bombers flying over the center of the airport, at 3000\' agl, despite several calls to the US Forestry Service.
The tankers were not listening to the airport frequency, looking at the sectional charts that indicated that Longmont had parachute activity and didn\'t talk to Denver Center or Approach. The DZ was operating strictly according to USPA guidelines. The jump plane pilot tried to contact the pilots of the slurry bombers on several frequencies, to no avail.
End result - after a great head-down jump with a friend of mine, we broke off at ~6000\', and I planned on falling until about 2500\', and then pull. At 3000\', I heard a plane fly under me from the north, and I fell in between the vertical stabilizer and elevator. Notice the tail fly under me in the video.
Peter Konrad"
Source
http://www.dropzone.com/features/Skydiverinnearmisswithsl.shtml
Video
http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Video_Vault/Miscellaneous&image=Bomberflyby.mpg&img=&tt=mpg
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Very wild.. Dude, I\'d forget to pull my shoot after that one. I bet he had to change his shorts on the ground.
Just a clarification though. It was actually a FULL MISS.
A near miss would mean that he got hit. You could also say Near hit.
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That would be pretty scary. My pants would be wet if that were me :eek: