Have any of you been skydiving before? My friend group and are are probably doing it sometime soon. So scary to think about! Could be the experience of a lifetime though
I have many times, but only tandem with pros/guides.
The first 20-30 seconds are terrifying cause thats when you’re accelerating to terminal velocity. The acceleration is what your inner ear registers most, acceleration is what causes the butterflies in your stomach, whether you’re jumping out of a plane or on a roller-coaster.
Once you hit terminal velocity, it’s actually… kinda boring. Very windy. Great view. If you’re tandem, you might do what I did and ask your pro to spread out their limbs with you to increase air resistance and slow down for abit… then you both pike (either feet first or in a dive) to accelerate again, just to get those butterflies going. Or you can ask him to help you spin, flip, etc, if you want to play with the sense of weightlessness at terminal velocity.
It really is only terrifying for those first 30 seconds though. Landing is a bit of a jolt, but the pro takes most of the impact and guides you through.
If you’re going solo… I got nothing. I’d probably pop my chute as soon as I was clear of the plane