Anyone ever done a Sky Dive?

Howdy folks,

Posting this here as I figure After Hours will get a fair few mods in it and one might have a better idea of where to move it to. I can't see a category that would obviously include sky dive discussion.


Anyway..


I've never done it before, would like to do it. Can find a website:

https://www.skydiveireland.ie/


But can't find any other websites out there at all. Not sure if €250 is cheap or expensive as can't seem to find anything to compare with, and also would be nice to see if there are other locations around the country to choose from to do it.


But seen as this is in AH for the moment, has anyone here ever tried it? Did you love it or hate it?

Cheers

Birneybau

Just muff ones. Many

frag420

I once dived upwards...toward the sky!

Someone reckoned it was a jump!?

Who knows?

17larsson

I done one in Fiji. Was pretty cool. Not as scary as I thought it would be but it was good to tick it off the bucket list.
It wasn't anywhere close to €250 though

Ken.

My uncle done one here a few years ago for charity. He had to collect ?350. ?150 went for the jump and 200 to charity.

http://skydive.ie/

whoopsadoodles

Barbie! wrote: »

My uncle done one here a few years ago for charity. He had to collect ?350. ?150 went for the jump and 200 to charity.

http://skydive.ie/

Did he cover the €150 himself?

Really bothers me when people take other folks money to pay for these bucket list experiences and the donators think it's all going to the charity.

Ken.

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

Did he cover the €150 himself?

Really bothers me when people take other folks money to pay for these bucket list experiences and the donators think it's all going to the charity.

Nope. That's the way it worked at the time. He collected over £350 but the charity still only got £200. This was in 19991/92

dreamers75

Yes did for the blind charity* a few years ago.

It was fcuking awesome, easily 30 of the best seconds of my life and I shat myself. Would deffo do it again.

* I did it for me.


Fairly sure that thing is still going raise X and get a free sky dive, think it was 1k raised or thereabouts.

whoopsadoodles

Barbie! wrote: »

Nope. That's the way it worked at the time. He collected over £350 but the charity still only got £200. This was in 19991/92

They all work like that. Even now.

Most people cough up the cost of the actual experience themselves. And I always ask before donating.

Also: 1991? That's 26 years ago. Little more than a few I'd have said.

5T3PH3N

I did one last year with my sister and 2 cousins with skydiveIreland. It's one of the best adrenaline rushes I've ever had. The worst part about it was thinking that there's probably not much else that will ever give the same rush as skydiving, so we're gonna have to do it again.

dreamers75

5T3PH3N wrote: »

I did one last year with my sister and 2 cousins with skydiveIreland. It's one of the best adrenaline rushes I've ever had. The worst part about it was thinking that there's probably not much else that will ever give the same rush as skydiving, so we're gonna have to do it again.

Wingsuit.

mfceiling

No

Birneybau

5T3PH3N wrote: »

I did one last year with my sister and 2 cousins with skydiveIreland. It's one of the best adrenaline rushes I've ever had. The worst part about it was thinking that there's probably not much else that will ever give the same rush as skydiving, so we're gonna have to do it again.

Heroin

5T3PH3N

Birneybau wrote: »

Heroin

Not even once;)

Noveight

Nope, nor would I be even slightly tempted to :eek:

Ken.

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

They all work like that. Even now.

Most people cough up the cost of the actual experience themselves. And I always ask before donating.

Also: 1991? That's 26 years ago. Little more than a few I'd have said.

It is only a few. I'm still young,I'm still young.

gidget

Yes, did one 3 years ago, 10,000 ft it was. It was one of those experiences i always said i wanted to do in my lifetime & just went & booked it one day. Loved every second of it, would do it again in a heartbeat, if it wasn't so pricey.

holystungun9

Yep, was grand.

Couldn't breath for a bit up there cos I never thought about the exhale part. Open your mouth and your lungs fill up like a balloon and not easy to breath back out.

Be aware that you can fix your day but the weather can interfere. It was my third trip before I got to go so just wanted to get it out of the way tbh.

mikeybrennan

I was going to do one for charity

I collected enough money for the jump but i couldn't get the 50 for the parachute

corner of hells

I did one years ago off a static line from 2000 feet.

It's a pretty good experience, well worth doing.

jimmurt

There's 3 dropzones in Ireland that cater for tandem students and one in NI.

A quick google search will find websites

Irish Parachute Club
Tandem Skydive in Westmeath
Skydive Ireland

The Wild Geese (NI)

In the IPC and Wild Geese you can also learn to skydive via AFF and static line.

MonkieSocks

Yep did it for Chartity thingy a good few years ago.

I was terrified standing on the Wing just before the jump.

Everything went crazy in my head when I let go of the plane, a few seconds of panic ( express elevator to hell man ) followed by relief when the chute had opened.

Then the sense of smells, that came up from the ground so far away (Not Poo Smell )

I imagined this is what the Burds smell, as they waft above us occasionally pausing to poo on our cars.

Then Terra Firma and the blissful sound of expletives I shouted and vowed never to repeat this horrid experience again.

duffman13

MonkieSocks wrote: »

Yep did it for Chartity thingy a good few years ago.

I was terrified standing on the Wing just before the jump.

Everything went crazy in my head when I let go of the plane, a few seconds of panic ( express elevator to hell man ) followed by relief when the chute had opened.

Then the sense of smells, that came up from the ground so far away (Not Poo Smell )

I imagined this is what the Burds smell, as they waft above us occasionally pausing to poo on our cars.

Then Terra Firma and the blissful sound of expletives I shouted and vowed never to repeat this horrid experience again.

Where the **** did you do it? Standing on a wing would be pretty tough going!

Did one last year OP probably going to do one again this summer. 250 in my mind is well worth it, you can get it cheaper if you wanna do it midweek.

TheDriver

Did a 14000 ft one, not for charity or anything. Just to do things that took me so far outside my comfort zone that I needed a map to get back

fryup

question for all you people who did it....

....was it a tandem jump?? or did you do it on you're own??

TheDriver

Tandem, nice to have company on the way down. Its all a bit surreal as you freefall for 60s, as if time stands still

duffman13

fryup wrote: »

question for all you people who did it....

....was it a tandem jump?? or did you do it on you're own??

Tandem, if you're doing a solo skydive you have to do a fairly decent amount if training including a number of tandem dives IIRC

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

No I'd say there's plenty of people that'd happily fu,ck me out of a plane but no intentions of soiling myself a mile high in the air

Samuel T. Cogley

Wore many a parachute never had occasion to use it. I don't know how many times I saw this 'safety video' it's missing the most hilarious part but still...

Never really got the attraction.

It always seemed like a kinda "safe" adrenaline rush, with no effort or energy, just hand over a ball of money and step out the side of a plane. There is an element of placing trust in someone else and of course in equipment, but you do it in other sports, like climbing when the lead climber tells you to climb and you trust him and look down the cliff face and see all the rocks you'll bounce off if he hasn't anchored the rope correctly. Plus that lasts for hours and takes huge effort.

Thumpette

Firstly I have to say that people who skydive for charity but use the fundraising to pay for the jump are a pet peeve of mine. No-one jumps unless they want to I'm some level so they should pay for the experience themselves!

I did one around 2 years ago. It was 6 months to the day my son was stillborn and we wanted to do something to remember him. To be honest I found it a bit boring. I guess being tandem makes it very simple. I loved the moment of jumping out of the plane. The few seconds of freefall were quite cool but once the parachute opens you are just hanging around. I think this could have been a lovely part particularly for the day that was in it if I'd been able to take it all in and have a mindful moment but the guy I was tandem with talked the whole time about the weather and the amazing scenery.

Overall I'm glad we did it but I wouldn't be bothered again I dont think.