Skydive #37 - October 11, 1998

Perris Valley, California
www.skydiveperris.com

All of these pictures are frame grabs from video tape by Charlie.

Jumping with The Mentor Program

Ready, Set, GO!
Go + 2 seconds
Paige MacDonald swoops down
I was inside giving the count on a 4-way linked exit. Exit plus two seconds and we're heading downhill. I'm the one at 12 o'clock. At the very lower right of this photo is Paige MacDonald swooping down to the formation. Paige has written some great articles for Parachutist magazine.

The 5-way star finally built
Funnel
Rejoin
Paige had to swing all the way around to the other side of the formation to get into her planned slot, so now she's at the 10 o'clock position. I'm at the lower left and the skydiver with the black and pink rig in the lower right is Dave Juergens, the guy that runs The Mentor Program at Perris. Here you can see where things start to go wrong. I've turned and am already starting for Dave's leg, but one of the other skydivers, the one at about the 4 o'clock position in the photo, is starting to fall below the formation. The general rule is that the group will try to rejoin with the person that goes low, so in the last photo you can see where we're all trying to dive and try to rejoin.

We, uh, never did fully rejoin.

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