Last Saturday I made due to the nice weather again two jumps in Hartenholm. Both I am bound together with Mirko, who has been with me license. As is so common among beginners, we have not made a lot of program but just wanted to lie for each other. The declared aim was to also at 2,000 meters to even be close together and perhaps even to fly back together. That alone was a task because of the 25kg weight difference between us and the resulting difference in the natural free-fall velocity, should be difficult enough.
I am the heavier of the two of us and so it went for me about as slowly as possible to fall. By jumping, you can reach the fact that one makes oneself as large as possible to - for obviously the same weight (it is in free fall is unlikely to grow) - the wind to give a larger working surface. We are therefore trying to get a bad aerodynamics. The whole thing looks like, as if to a large ball with two and a half Meters in diameter hug. The technical term for this is float.
This is two problems with which I had to fight. First, this posture is very unstable and shaky, secondly you have, if you stretched out all fours, not too much room to move purposefully through the air. A similar problem had to offer to Mirko, moreover, because he wanted to make himself as small as we went to the least possible surface for the wind and thus faster.
As we all previously knew, we decided to make in any case an exit linked to at least initially a short time watching the other in the free case. The exit also worked with two jumps to some extent, even if we skip the second time again, we're still together. After the release happened what had to happen and we had an awful lot to keep the difficulty level. We flew around us and have drifted apart. The first jump significantly worse than the second, where we managed a few seconds after the release to stay together before I'm down paths rushes.
We resolved to try again anyway. Although we probably need to adjust the weight for something. And that does not mean a diet for me (lucky!), But a weight belt for Mirko. And since you at every step to learn: it was here to float.
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