Consol - Jump 14 - 12,500ft

First jump of the day.  This is always the hardest one, but it is getting easier now.  My plan is to get in five jumps today.  Unfortunately the weather didn’t end up cooperating, but more on that later.

I exit out last at just over 12,500ft.  I do a diving exit and get stable pretty fast.  I’m getting better at this now exit now.  I plan practicing a slightly different exit on future jumps to prep for my Hop-n-pop.  I usually keep my first solo jumps of the day pretty tame and this is one is no different.  I only do a few 360’s and concentrate on slowing my fall rate.  I also do a bit of tracking as well.  My fall speed is getting better as my avg on this jump was 125mph.  I pull at 4,000ft with no issues.  The ride down is fine as well.  Just as I’m landing though the winds begin to kick up.  Before going up I discussed this with my instructor and so in preparation for the jump we re-reviewed the RSL procedure for cutting away once on the ground in case of high winds.  Fortunately I don’t have to worry about this.  Unfortunately because the winds are so variable I end up off target, but still have a stand-up landing.

The DZ ends up getting shutdown for most of the day do to high winds, so I spend the rest of the day learning how to pack and working with my instructors at Jim Wallace Skydiving checking off items on my A license proficiency card.  I now only have left 3 things.

1. Complete a hop-n-pop
2. Complete two more on target landings
3. Complete 25 jumps total.

With any luck, and $$$ I’ll have these done by June.