Welcome to the Skydiving World
of Amy and Abe Oros
Amy's Skydiving
Amy made her first jump from a Cessna 182 at Peach State
Skydiving, Covington, Georgia on 16 December 1995. Amy's father, Bob, even made
a static line jump with Amy soon after, to get in on the experience. This jump
was tremendously special to both. After all, how many people can brag about
skydiving with their parents? At the time she was a relatively new college graduate,
and could only afford to do static line jumps (Amy's father would share the
adrenaline experience, but opted to pass on sharing the financial experience).
She had to transfer to the AFF program after experiencing one King Air/free
fall jump.
Since that fateful day in January of 1996, Amy has amassed a tremendous amount
of adrenaline:
- Her first malfunction on jump number 11.
- Met her husband on the DZ on a rainy day in 1997.
- Jumped from most types of jump planes and even from
a balloon (leaving her father Bob, and mother Diane behind to return gently
to the ground in the balloon).
- Competed on four-way, twenty-way and fourty-way (4,
20 and 40 people in one formation) teams. Her largest formations was a 64-way
at Quincy.
- Jumped into, what might very well be, the largest
formation competition/demo at the Johnson Space Center (NASA).
- Participated in the craziness of Quincy.
Although Wendy Faulkner tried to convert Amy to CRW (canopy relative work),
Amy's primary interest is RW (relative work - falling with many people close
by, making various formations or points).
BTW, you might be asking if Amy's parachute has ever
failed to open, the answer is yes. Twice in 650 jumps.
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Abe's Skydiving
Abe made his first jump on 19 January 1975 (and he always
brags about having the low USPA number 3047). Due to the military and his many
interests, he took a nineteen-year break. When he returned to the sport in December
1994, he became (what Amy calls) a jumping whore. He had to make at least ten
jumps a weekend, and quickly collected many of USPA's RW awards (take a look
at his awards below). He became an instant celebrity (at least in his mind)
by having his name mentioned in Parachutist magazine almost every month in the
summer of '95.
Abe has competed in four, ten, twenty, and forty-way
teams (the latter with Amy at the Ballunar Fest at the Johnson Space Center).
Abe has also been a participant in several Texas POPS record (until 2 April
1999) as well as, thanks to Carey Peck, the previous POPS World record (91 way
at Perris Valley, CA).
He also holds the Accelerated Free Fall Jumpmaster rating from the USPA.
If you are wondering if Abe has ever had a malfunction, the answer is he has
had three canopy malfunctions in 1400 jumps.
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Skydiving Terms
(You are welcome to submit additional definitions)
- RW - Skydivers who can fall stable on their stomachs.
- CReW - Skydivers who need a parachute to fall stable.
- Head Downers - Skydivers who can't fall stable or
don't know which way is up, or down.
- Free Stylers - Skydivers who are Nadia Comanici wanna-bees.
- Sit Flyers - Skydivers who have a desire for 120 MPH
air enemas.
- Hook Turns - The type of landings you would like the
pain-in-the-neck skydivers to do so you can have some peace and quiet while
they recover in the hospital.
- Rig - That wonderful piece of equipment consisting
of parachutes and harness.
- BOC - Have you heard of the term Pulling things out
of your B..., this is where many skydivers reach to begin the parachute opening
sequence.
- DZ (Drop Zone) - A place where soft drinks cost money
and beers are free.
- Hop-n-Pops - The type of jumps you make when the plane
gets at least five hundred feet off the ground.
- Cross Country - The jumps skydivers make as the 50
MPH winds from a hurricane arrive at the DZ.
- Pro Packing - Does not mean your parachute was packed
by a licensed, accredited, certified and respected member of society.
- Packers - The only person on the DZ (see above) you
want to make sure you keep happy, very happy!
- Waiver - The piece of paper no skydiver ever reads,
stating that he/she has read, but initials and signs it anyway.
- Whuffo - Individual who has no clue what this list
is about and why it's so funny.
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FAQ:
- Why would anyone jump out of a perfectly good airplane?
- The door was open.
- No such thing as a perfectly good airplane
- Rich farted
- The person next to me smelled funny
- I needed a breath of fresh air
- Did you see the Duct Tape on the wing?
- Amelia Earhart was the pilot
- I told Amy/Abe I would follow her/him anywhere
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last updated 05 October 2004.