"...the stress comes while you're waiting, before you go. Once you start to act, it all happens by itself."
This is how I feel about big missions around here. The planning and briefing and trying to sleep the night before. Once the briefing is done, the execution is all automatic. If you planned right, all the hard decisions have been made ahead of time. Any situation is met with a premeditated action. (Hopefully)
Ideally the whole mission happened the day before and no decisions have to be made at all during execution.
It just occured to me... isn't it more impressive ot base jump from a low spot? The whole point of base jumping is how close you are to the ground and how tight your margins are. The highest base jump would be the opposite of all that. You have longer to deploy your chute, you have longer to fix a problem, you have longer to get away from the structure. Wouldn't the top of a short structure be more impressive. Like base jumping off a tree?
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"...the stress comes while you're waiting, before you go. Once you start to act, it all happens by itself."
This is how I feel about big missions around here. The planning and briefing and trying to sleep the night before. Once the briefing is done, the execution is all automatic. If you planned right, all the hard decisions have been made ahead of time. Any situation is met with a premeditated action. (Hopefully)
Ideally the whole mission happened the day before and no decisions have to be made at all during execution.
It just occured to me... isn't it more impressive ot base jump from a low spot? The whole point of base jumping is how close you are to the ground and how tight your margins are. The highest base jump would be the opposite of all that. You have longer to deploy your chute, you have longer to fix a problem, you have longer to get away from the structure. Wouldn't the top of a short structure be more impressive. Like base jumping off a tree?
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