I cant understand daredevils.

[Zen Badger]

As to the guy mentioned, no harm in getting some fame while having fun. If he wants company, all he needed was to ask me From that height, it must be an epic jump.

Have at it then but you will NEVER get me to do that. Shit I am a fraid of farris wheels. I get dizzy just standing on my porch(not really), but damn do I hate open heights.
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I guess aerobatics in one of these is out then....



Yes, Kichi bought me a joy flight in this actual aircraft for my birthday and I picked the aerobatic option.

Possibly the realest thing I have ever done in my life.

[LastPoet]

Still, just for the sake of it, if I had the money, I'd take a pilot's course just to do that, Or better, piloting a Spitfire

[Zen Badger]

Still, just for the sake of it, if I had the money, I'd take a pilot's course just to do that, Or better, piloting a Spitfire

Don't get me started on Spitfires.

[jonb]

Envy, In my twenties I went for a pilots licence, and made the mistake of doing a burst of lessons at the beginning, then work went mad and I couldn't do enough hours in the air to hold my yearly quota up and I eventually had to give it up. But an open cockpit yellow plane ooooooo.

[Zen Badger]

BTW, here is a pic of me from a few years ago



As the song goes.... learning to fly.

And if this new job works out I just might take it up again.

[Whateverist]

Looks like a glider. I imagine it would be very quiet in one of those. Do hear the air rush by much?

[jonb]

Another thing I did only a few times, but if I had had the time I could have got into was; potholing, squeezing through tight confined dirty wet places in the dark, It felt like what I was made for.
For those that don't know here is a short lyrical film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHtLDfb0slI

[Whateverist]

Nice. I've done just a little of that, near the University of California in Santa Cruz. Much drier and just a few hundred feet of passages.

After a party on campus I was planning on meeting a friend to explore it some more. So I brought my sleeping bag down and bivouacked on a shelf in a fairly large room of the cave. It was interesting to wake up and get my bearings.

[jonb]

I have not done that, longest I was down was about eight hours, but I went through a particularly muddy passage and lost all orientation up, down, forward, backwards, no light no clear sound, wild isn't it.

[Zen Badger]

Looks like a glider. I imagine it would be very quiet in one of those. Do hear the air rush by much?

It is different to powered flying, but you do still hear the wind.