Flow around your own body - time for practice only

Admittedly, my practical test was already a few weeks ago. I would have loved to present you the corresponding picture of a CFD flow simulation, preferably from a lidar scan, but unfortunately the vacation season is also mercilessly hitting us and therefore you will have to be content with the pure report from practice this time.

Somehow the picture reminds me of the “Moorhuhn” from the youth? It's already so weird again that I can unabashedly put it on the homepage.

But one after the other:

On my bucket-list of things to do (that is, everything I still want to do before I kick the bucket) was until recently thick and bold "skydive". To keep the costs for this within limits (there is a surcharge for too heavy a load and I am a Swabian ...), I made a bet to push my weight below the critical mark or to bake Kaiserschmarren for the entire, present company staff. Unfortunately, this only worked out quite well until March 2023, but then the whole thing got a bit out of hand (i.e. weight corridor) and so I still have to swap the engineer's outfit for the chef's coat this year, but that's another story. I have comforted myself with the fact that the above text marks in particular on the refer to the entire parachute jump.

On June 15, 2023 at 14:47 (no guarantee), the time had come and it went far up in Mayrhofen in the middle of the mountains by helicopter in the best weather.

The view of the surrounding mountains is already gigantic and you have to acknowledge without envy that I am already a cool sock and was actually quite calm even when looking down from the open helicopter door.

The flight with the back pressed through and the wings spread out in the so-called banana position at maximum speed (see picture 2) was unfortunately over much too quickly.

When opening the parachute, it then came very jerkily to what my Skat friend Bernhard has very aptly described as "pushing up blocks". Probably without the lost Kaiserschmarren bet this would have turned out a bit more comfortable, but the subsequent floating down the chute also has its own charm.

The landing was also unproblematic for me. Unfortunately, my wife Lizzy fractured a vertebra during landing due to a gust of wind. After it got only a little better during our vacation, the doctor diagnosed a fracture of number 8 when we returned. In the meantime, however, it has been operated on, screwed down and is almost as good as new again. Probably I have to make my next jump alone. Maybe Chadi and Maik will go with me this time....