While other people in good’ol Germany might still have been drunken on Easter Sunday morning – we got up pretty early and headed towards Taupo Airport. Heiko & me got a short briefing, put on some special suits, glasses & gloves and boarded a little airplane. Togehter with some other keen Easter-Sunday-morning-Skydivers we flew up to 12.000 feet (ca. 4km) – and one after the other jumped off the plane and took his way doooooownnn…

This was a Tandem Skydive, therefore we were attached to a professional Skydiving Master. Both therefore shared one parachute.

The first few seconds of falling were the best, because you accelerate pretty fast until you reach ca. 200km/h (that’s terminal velocity!) Awesome! After 50 seconds of absolute freefall – including 20 seconds of spinning-arround-like-in-a-washingmachine my skydiving master pulled our parachute – and the freefall suddenly stopped. As we slowely glided down towards the airport I also steered the parachute..:-)