Talking Skydive over Skien Norway Grenland Fallskjermklubb
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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" through my life ive seen so many wonderful things "......
A drop zone on a mountain surrounded by forests in Norway sounds like a perfect place to see more wonderfulness....
Do you change up to metric when jumping outside the US? I assume by how quickly you touched down after "we're just under 3000" the answer is 'no'.
If that's the case, do you have any advice for coordinating with others in your group who are using metric?
The Norweigians use feet for altitude, but metric for horizontal measurements. It is a bit of a challenge for navigational math, but we make it work. If you are using comms for flying in groups, it might be a good idea to standardize for those jumps.
@@Brian-Germain nice, thanks Brian. That's pretty interesting that they use feet for vertical distance.
I'm an American living in France and though I've adapted to the metric system well, my altimeters are still scaled in feet.
I'm not flying with comms but just coordinating break-off and talking with other jumpers sometimes leaves me second guessing my conversations, which is distracting.
I keep my visual altimeter set to feet because that's what my brain works best with, but changed my audible to metric so to coordinate with the rest of the people on the plane.
I still pull and fly my pattern using my visual reference but try to say out loud what the points correspond to in meters. Kind of trying to retain myself, but it has proven to be a difficult but interesting process.