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Old 8th Jun 2011, 17:26
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Avionker
 
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Never made it up to 10,000. All my exits were at 2,500 I seem to remember.

I was on a sports parachute course there, summer of '89. We had a WRAF officer on the course, who was around 5 foot nothing tall and probably weighed about 5 stone when wet. On our first jump of the course she was the first out off the door on the first pass. I was last out off the aircraft, and I passed her on the way down. I arrived in roughly the right area, on the airfield at any rate, as did almost everyone else.

She on the other hand drifted away into the distance and landed, if memory serves correctly, in the exercise yard of the local kennels. Apparently the residents weren't very happy about the "gatecrasher" and expressed their displeasure quiet vociferously. Never got a chance to get the story first hand, as we were one course member short from that point on, at her own request I should point out.

No sense of adventure some people.....
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