BikerBecca
Contributor
OK everyone. This is going to be nice comment so you can get into my head. It's about the "Bounce Dive" comment. To me it's all about the planning that excites me. At 400 feet I'll see whatever mud my light shines on and maybe some sort of sea slug. That's not why I want to do it. I want to do it for the planning. Let me explain...
I am also a pilot. When I am not flying aerobatics in an IAC competition I love flight planning. Here is a perfect example. My favorite plane was what I called the "Mini Airliner." It was a PA-32R (Piper Lance and Piper Saratoga). Club seating in the back. Cargo space further back and a beautiful panel up front in my office. I especially loved the auto pilot.
Before I would take my friends on "$100 Hamburger Runs" I loved doing the flight planning. Penciling it out on my Sectional. Listening to the weather and looking for awesome tail winds. Using my E6B to calculate direction, fuel consumption, etc. Writing the plan down. VOR headings, compass headings, times between way-points. The engineer in me loves doing this. Then I'd file my flight plan, do my pre-flight, and welcome my friends aboard. Today we are going from LI MacArthur to Providence, RI.
Let the flight begin. Taxing? BORING! Take off? BORING? But when I opened my flight plan, asked NY Radio for flight following I was at my happiest. I wanted to make a perfect flight for my friends, smooth as silk and fast as possible. However, as they were having fun in the back I was counting every second that went by, planning the next course change, making sure I hit each way-point at the exact second I planned it. Then my approaches were epic. I'd have them planned way way way way out. We'd come in smooth as silk and at exactly the time I planned. One time a scared new flyer boyfriend of my friend popped his head up front and said, "We Landed!!!" It was that smooth. A perfect greaser.
That's what makes me happy and I want to do that level of planning on a dive. Gas mixtures, which to use at each depth, how long at each depth. Deco time, and all the 1000 other anal things to make the dive perfect.
It's not a bounce dive to me. It's a well planned mission of adventure and making it happen exactly as my calculations said it would.
Sorry for the long post but yes, my bucket list dive is 400 fsw.
I am also a pilot. When I am not flying aerobatics in an IAC competition I love flight planning. Here is a perfect example. My favorite plane was what I called the "Mini Airliner." It was a PA-32R (Piper Lance and Piper Saratoga). Club seating in the back. Cargo space further back and a beautiful panel up front in my office. I especially loved the auto pilot.
Before I would take my friends on "$100 Hamburger Runs" I loved doing the flight planning. Penciling it out on my Sectional. Listening to the weather and looking for awesome tail winds. Using my E6B to calculate direction, fuel consumption, etc. Writing the plan down. VOR headings, compass headings, times between way-points. The engineer in me loves doing this. Then I'd file my flight plan, do my pre-flight, and welcome my friends aboard. Today we are going from LI MacArthur to Providence, RI.
Let the flight begin. Taxing? BORING! Take off? BORING? But when I opened my flight plan, asked NY Radio for flight following I was at my happiest. I wanted to make a perfect flight for my friends, smooth as silk and fast as possible. However, as they were having fun in the back I was counting every second that went by, planning the next course change, making sure I hit each way-point at the exact second I planned it. Then my approaches were epic. I'd have them planned way way way way out. We'd come in smooth as silk and at exactly the time I planned. One time a scared new flyer boyfriend of my friend popped his head up front and said, "We Landed!!!" It was that smooth. A perfect greaser.
That's what makes me happy and I want to do that level of planning on a dive. Gas mixtures, which to use at each depth, how long at each depth. Deco time, and all the 1000 other anal things to make the dive perfect.
It's not a bounce dive to me. It's a well planned mission of adventure and making it happen exactly as my calculations said it would.
Sorry for the long post but yes, my bucket list dive is 400 fsw.