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No More Redneck Parasailing?!?
- Thread starter redmidgrl
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which is weird, considering the zoomies at vance did not parasail. they invented this BS piece of garbage called the lateral drift trainer to help teach it...it was the same thing as the PLF trainer in the gravel pits at API only slightly higher up. Worthless.
Nothing will quite teach one to keep their eyes on the horizon like the second parasail fall. Watching my own knee go directly into my face upon landing was an excellent teaching method to not do that again. eyes on the horizon for this bubba from now on.
Nothing will quite teach one to keep their eyes on the horizon like the second parasail fall. Watching my own knee go directly into my face upon landing was an excellent teaching method to not do that again. eyes on the horizon for this bubba from now on.
Tell that to the guy in my class who fucked up his knee and got NPQed from Aviation. OBTW, this was when they were cutting attrites loose, so it was "thanks for your service and don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out." What a way to end a career, and waste the Navy's money and an Academy education.
Hoo-rah, yut-yut only goes so far. I thought it was fairly high-risk for the return in training you got.
While the odds were small of ever having to bail out (or eject for jet guys later on) I think that the training was very worthwhile. My fat ass fell like a rock so knowing how to land and actually getting a chance to try it was worth it before having to put it in to practice somewhere other than a flat pasture.
It sucks for that guy in your class and I never want to see someone get booted out for something like that, but no one made him do it.
The rumors are true. I was in 4608, the first class of the FY and therefore the first class to get denied.
Yeah-It was a bummer to not do it....but for some fun and a little bit training for a very unlikely every- It was no where NEAR worth all the shattered bones, damaged joints, and NPQ'd folks we ended up with.
It's just as fun if you get to Pensacola beach or Destin and do it over the water- and it's way less work.
When I did it two years ago, there was a safety guy there watching. Supposedly, he came down to evaluate that one event. He seems to have been satisfied because he didn't shut it down then.
The story from "them" is about 8 months back a female SNA landed wrong and shattered a hip. She's NPQ from flying...and most likely not going to recover enough to stay in the Navy.
Being that it takes a signature from the ADM to make changes to the syllabus and the gov't likes to start and end stuff on FY's- It's taken a bit of time to happen.
Being that it takes a signature from the ADM to make changes to the syllabus and the gov't likes to start and end stuff on FY's- It's taken a bit of time to happen.
Dammit. New not fun a-pool happens when I come, no more redneck parasailing happens when I come, booooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm all about malice towards the Air Force, but they didn't invent that contraption. It's been in use at jump school at Fort Benning for a looooong time, which is where the AF got the idea. Since nearly every dude in the military that learns to jump static line goes through that trainer during ground week, maybe they thought there was something to it.
if what you're talking about is what i'm thinking of, which is the harness straps hooked up to the elastic bungees that slide down a wire from a higher point to a lower point, this contraption is not the same animal we're talking about.
the one at vance was a pulley on a cord about 8 feet off the ground. when i dangle my monkey arms my feet were probably a dizzying 6 inches off the ground. some pretty serious acceleration can happen from that height.
the one at vance was a pulley on a cord about 8 feet off the ground. when i dangle my monkey arms my feet were probably a dizzying 6 inches off the ground. some pretty serious acceleration can happen from that height.