With the weather we had this weekend, it’s hard to believe we are already into the month of November.

Of course, I’m not complaining – that is, aside from the 20+ mph winds that kept us from flying on Saturday.

Sunday, on the other hand, was a different story. A number of my jumping buddies were turbine chasing that day, but Rick and I headed down to Canton Airsports to spend what could be one of the last good jumping days of the season at our home DZ.

With two C-182s running, we were able to knock out three great jumps during the day.

The first was a standard train exit into a sit. Rick and I did the train with Paul hanging out on the strut. It was fun to get to sitfly with Paul for a change.

*Photo by Ken Daidone

On the ride up Paul mentioned that he had a ProDytter for sale and asked if I would be interested. As a freeflyer who’s been skydiving without an audible, I jumped at his offer (no pun intended). After the jump he handed me the Dytter and it went straight into my helmet for immediate use!

The next jump was a very fun freefly! For our exit I attempted to tackle Rick off the strut. In the video it appears that I do so quite successfully, however if he wouldn’t have grabbed me I’m not so sure we would have pulled it off.

From there we went straight into a horny gorilla, and Randy and Joe chased us down. You’ll notice Randy came in a little hot…at this point we broke off and I sat until it was time to deploy. The Dytter worked it’s magic and was screaming, as it should have been, when I dumped. I can tell this device is going to change my freefly experience!

*Video by Richard Simenc

The last jump of the day was a tandem chase. John from over at Traventure Man came to CAS to do his first skydive and we paired him up with our buddy Tod.

After exit I sat to get level with the tandem and watched them from a distance. It was cool to see them deploy, at which point I began tracking toward the DZ as the spot was a little long. During my track I missed one of the most exciting parts of the skydive: Tod’s cutaway.

*Photo by Sandy Weltman  (Tod and John under the crispy white reserve.)

With a line over, Tod asked John if he was ready to do it again, and with a “hell yeah!” Tod cut away and gave John a 2 for 1 deal.

*Photo by Sandy Weltman (Load 9 safely back on the ground.)

Hope everyone got out and enjoyed this beautiful fall weather. Fingers crossed for some more weekends just like this.

Blue Skies!

-Ashley