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The only about weather is that it is uncertain and unpredictable! But who talks about weather more than skydivers do?
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All weather reports are unsure. If I see low clouds and rain in the morning I go to DZ because:
1) The weather in Moscow often has nothing common with weather at DZ that is 100 km (and 2 hours!) far. I'd rather waste the day at DZ than listening to my friends' phone calls in the evening who had 10 skydives today while I was watching the rain outside my window.
2)Moscow weather is usually worse than outside. Industrial haze, dust and warmer temperature of the big city... Let's get out of here!
3) If you peer for a long time into the grey cloudy sky over DZ there is a chance you'll notice some blue spots that mean the clouds are thin, skydives are allowed! Tell about that everyone you meet, speak loudly and confidently, point your finger to sky, don't give up! There is a chance you'll persuade everybody including pilots and DZ owner to start jumping :)
4) The weather can be "corrected" or "beaten". You'll need a good skydiver's company, some bottles of vodka (beer at worst), the worse the weather - the more vodka :) Toast to 800 meters - don't harry, feel the responsibility, we are "making the weather" - then to 1200 meters - keep feeling the moment, we all want to skydive - to 2500 meters - human's spirit is strong - to 3500 meters - carefully and seriously! - and to 4000 meters - with happy yell!!! Because the method never fails :) But it has one serious drawback: after using it sometimes there is noone sober left to fill the load...
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