Mike's Skydiving Page

"Harmony, indeed, was the reign's password. The polite arts and pure sciences flourished. ...The climate seemed to be improving... The poor were getting a little richer ... Parachuting had become a popular sport. Everybody, in a word, was content--even the political mischiefmakers who were contentedly making mischief..."
--Vladimir Nabokov, "Pale Fire" note to line 12.

"this business of parachuting ... being a matter of mere sentimental tradition rather than a useful manner of transportation..."
--Vladimir Nabokov, "Pale Fire" note to line III:691.

• Mike recommends New York City , USA jumping at the Ranch and Sky's The Limit.
• Parachuting Songbook 1 and 2
• Kittinger's 100K jump.
• Writing a Skydive simulator,
• Dad's Cessna 172 (100K).
• Dan's Mig Dynasoar (200K)
• About to land at Z-hills .
• With Dad at Z-hills after landing.

Jump Log

Mike's Early Jumps

As of 2008 March 3, I'm up to a B license and 276 jumps, including highlights:

• A six-mile cross-country canopy flight with three buddies,
• a 5-way with Guy Manos (3 points, with swoops in between all of them!),
• a 13 point 4-way,
• a (unintentional) 3-way head-down dive with my buddies in "team subsonic" ("first out & last down, still in search of that first point"). Whew!)
• jumps in six countries and eleven states,
• jumping from a DC-3 that is flying a sunset formation load with an Otter,
• sharing the plane ride up with my Dad (who was doing a tandem), and then sharing the sky under canopy,
• and jumping from an Antonov 2 biplane in Russia with my brother, while our Mom is piloting the plane!

Early jumps...

• Jump 1 (Static Line, Long Island), 1988.
• Jumps 2 and 3 (Static Line, Voloslovo Aerodrome, Moscow), 1992.
• Jump 4 (AFF 1: freefall from 13,500 feet, Blue Sky Ranch, NY), 1995.
• Jumps 5 & 6 (AFF 2 and 3, at the ranch), 1995.
• Skydive City (jump 7, aff 3).
• Skydive Arizona (Jump 8, aff 3).
• Blue Sky Ranch (Jump 9, aff 3).

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Revised 2009 mar 22; copyright (c) Mike Roam