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Originally Posted by Pete
My one and only land jump in Panama was when we flew down from Bragg. About three back in the stick and going through the jump commands, the right door went up and all I could see was ocean. The light turned green, the stick started moving and I still only saw ocean. It was only when I turned into the door that I saw we were over land.
Then I noticed "Oh, look, a nice grassy DZ." As I started to land in the "grass" I found out it was about 7 foot tall. Man, what a mess that made in the kit bag.
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Sounds like Coats-Deblois DZ.
Lots of sticks put out a few seconds too early and wound up in the drink on that one.
Nothing like landing on the beach and having a canopy in the surf filling with sand and water.
Locals from the village right there on the beach would just stand by and watch to see if you made it or not. Fun and games.
Yep, 60 Driver, the deep elephant grass was on Gatun. It did make for a soft landing and minimal PLF, but finding the rally and turn-in points could be a problem if you were not well oriented when you landed. I remember landing maybe 20 feet from the edge of the clearing, in 10 foot high grass, and it took me fifteen minutes to break through to the DZ, I had to take a bearing to do that.
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