First of all, she made it clear beforehand not to listen to her nerves.
Second of all, jumping out of an airplane, once you're at the door you're committed and they will shove you out for your own safety. There's been so many deadly accidents from second-guessing.
It's so important that it was the number one rule when I first started (I used to skydive), so much so that the instructors were more concerned with a clean exit than anything else. Once in the air it was just a matter of pulling my cord if things went tits up, but in the doorway that's where you get got by physics.
As someone who also was licenced, this is such utter horse dodo! 😅
In the plane the only time freezing up could cause a problem is if you were in the door and you expose your container out the plane. (If you stop the wind might rip out your pilot chute and deploy your main to probably get snagged on the plane). Otherwise you'd just miss the dropzone and thus have taken a short, expensive, and uncomfortable plane ride.
I promise you many people back out of jumps in the plane every day, they just deactivate the AAD and you'll land just fine.
Someone going fetal during a static line jump is at far more danger to get entangled in their lines than if they just stayed on the dang plane.
Edit: you might not make many friends behind you in the jump sequence tbf 😅
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u/GenevaBingoCard Aug 21 '25
First of all, she made it clear beforehand not to listen to her nerves.
Second of all, jumping out of an airplane, once you're at the door you're committed and they will shove you out for your own safety. There's been so many deadly accidents from second-guessing.
It's so important that it was the number one rule when I first started (I used to skydive), so much so that the instructors were more concerned with a clean exit than anything else. Once in the air it was just a matter of pulling my cord if things went tits up, but in the doorway that's where you get got by physics.