3-way Sit Train - Winter Skydiving

Originally had planned to work on my sit flying skills with Mark and DZ Chad on video, but Sunman decided to join us and put together a sit train. We would be last off the plane since we had a 12-way group in front of us and some belly flyers. We make our way to the door and climb outside hanging onto the rail above the door. This is when I realized how cold it was as I was barely able to hold onto the rail, not to mention windy weather conditions as you will see in the video. The video was compiled by Chad and Sunman showing both views (on & off the train).

Mark gave the exit count with his arm, and we were off! I was in the middle (yellow helmet and black face mask) this time so I couldn't screw up the formation (see last train wreck). This time we nailed it, and held the formation together for a pretty long time. It was awesome! I managed to hold the my sit after we broke off, rolled over to my stomach to track away at 5000' and leveled out to pull at 4000' thereabout. Chad and Mark were below me and hadn't pulled yet; they were cuttin it close. I'll have to find out from Mark after he downloads the data from his digital altimeter to see how low they actually were.

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• freefly
• sitfly
• sit fly
• train
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