I've parasailed, too. It was awesome.

Skydiving, at least until your chute opens, isn't anything like flying, Ghosty, as you'll find out when you talk to skydivers. It's like falling. Fast. After the chute opens, they say it's like controlled fall-floating. I once did a series of articles for my newspaper on skydivers and diving when I was a reporter. I did a low training jump. But I couldn't go all the way up high and do the real thing. Had heard too much in-depth detail about the sensations and risks. And I'd read two background pieces about two divers in different places whose chutes didn't open. That was plenty enough to dissuade Miss Safety First.