Skydiving Photos

[ardypilot]

For my 20th bday, my rents bought me my first skydive down at Mercer in Waikato. It was a tandem jump from 12,000 feet, approximately 60 seconds of freefall and another five minutes under parachute canopy down from 5000 feet to landing back at the strip- one of the best things I've ever done in my life We didn't book the camera guy to join us, but it was such a nice day on Wednesday, he chose to come up with for the ride anyway. Thought I'd share some of the snaps here on the off chance I can tempt anyone else into giving it a go:

























And if you're on facebook, you can also view the video from his helmet camera here. Cheers!

[Ian Warren]

Andy .... Did ya ever have this fear off falling .. dont figure ... why do you need a helmet hahahaha only joking new perspective to flight

Hmmm , some reason .... i no this area well

[FlyingKiwi]

Looks like awesome fun, very cool indeed.

[Ian Warren]

look at the guy flying , almost looking down in three pics saying ' oy you ' ... 'were the the ell you going '

[mavman]

Wicked shots! Thanks for sharing! I've put a 15000ft jump over ZQN on my christmas wishlist!!

[deeknow]

Great stuff Trolly, good thing you had a lovely hat on so your hair didnt get messed up
Lucky re the photographer came along, those are fantastic pics, what fun!!!

I did a static line jump a few years back but no freefall to speak of, must do a tandom I think