Eloy, AZ Airport has a skydiving facility
A few days ago, a bunch of folks from the RV park and I trekked over to Eloy to watch teams of skydivers preparing for a competition. There were even teams from West Point (they look SO young!). From packing chutes, to practicing the departure from the plane, thru diving and landing - it's all open to visitors to watch.
Practicing 'jumping' out of the plane is especially important if a group is going to attempt to join up and do some patterns or tricks before they all separate to open their chutes.
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| Getting ready to enter, then 'jump' out of the practice plane door. |
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| and then down they come; lots of maneuverability with this type of parachute. |
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| a bunch of us lookey-loos! |
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| And what is that big thing in the background? Read on . . . |
Wind tunnel training is available right next to the landing field
Anyone can rent some time with a trainer in the wind tunnel - if you'd like to gain some experience before flinging yourself out of a perfectly good airplane, or it you'd just like to experience weightlessness for a couple of minutes.
The wind tunnel is blowing about 100mph - so getting airborne is not difficult. Controlling what happens next is not so easy, and kind of hilarious to watch!
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| These people are experienced! |
All together a very fun day.
One sour note
We had lunch at the Bentprop Cookery. The food looked really tasty. I wouldn't know for sure because they got backed up on the daily special I ordered and, after 30 minutes of waiting (all my friends had finished eating), I asked for my money back. Eventually, after another wait, they not so graciously gave me my money back (no apology, no 'how can we make this up to you' ). The restaurant was half-empty when we ordered, so I don't know how they got 'backed up' - I really think that they just misplaced the order. So, not good customer service, but if you want to take a chance, you might luck out.
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