第八章
CHAPTER 8
如何安全跳出飞机（防范风险提示）
How to Safely Jump Out of a Plane (Tips for Preempting Risk)
当飞机爬高时，我看着窗外，看着建筑物和汽车变得越来越小，我再也看不到降落地点了。
I was looking out the window as the airplane climbed in altitude, watching as the buildings and cars became smaller and smaller and I couldn’t spot the landing site anymore.
飞行员宣布，“我们快到10000英尺了”，我的心一沉。
The pilot announced, “We’re getting close to 10,000 feet,” and my heart just sank.
我开始怀疑为什么一个完全理智的成年人会决定从一架完全安全的飞机上跳下来。
I started to wonder why a perfectly sane adult would decide to jump out of a perfectly safe airplane.
我一直认为自己厌恶风险。
I’d always considered myself risk averse.
22岁时，我有自己的汽车保险、健康保险，甚至还有一个退休储蓄账户。
At the age of twenty-two, I had my own car insurance, health insurance, and even a retirement savings account.
我不是那种喜欢延缓张伞跳伞运动的人。
I wasn’t the type to go skydiving.
但我的朋友说服了我去，我在登机前签字放弃了我所有的权利。
But my friend had convinced me to go, and I had signed all my rights away before I got on the plane.
我已经到了无法回头的地步。
I was beyond the point of no return.
几分钟后，无论我喜欢与否，我都会向地球飞驰。
Minutes later, I’d be hurtling toward the earth whether I liked it or not.
尽管当时我充满了肾上腺素和疑虑，但从飞机上跳下来实际上是一个经过精心策划的风险。
Despite all the adrenaline and doubt I had in the moment, jumping out of the plane was actually a fairly calculated risk.
在搭乘飞机之前，我参加了一个八小时的加速自由落体（AFF）训练课程，为首次跳伞的人提供培训，这些人想独自从飞机上跳下来，在他们帮助你完成最初的跳伞后，你可以独自学习跳伞技能，无需教练附着在你的背上。
Prior to the plane ride, I had attended an eight-hour Accelerated Free Fall (AFF) training course for first-time skydivers who want to jump out of a plane solo—you learn the skills to skydive alone, without an instructor attached to your back, after they help you take the initial leap from the plane.
我们讨论了跳伞者如何花费三个小时的时间，使用一种显著提高降落伞正确打开的可能性的技术，精心包装他们的降落伞。
We talked about how skydivers spend three hours painstakingly packing their chutes using a technique that significantly increases the likelihood the chute will open correctly.
我们了解到，有两条不同的绳索可以触发降落伞，以防第一条绳索不起作用。
We learned that there are two different cords to trigger your chute in case the first doesn’t work.
我们讨论了如果降落伞没有完全打开该怎么办，以及如何在空中纠正它。
We talked about what to do if your chute didn’t open fully and how to correct it midair.
我们学习了如何在最坏的情况下，以尽可能减少身体骨折的方式摔倒。
We learned how to fall in a way that minimized the number of broken bones in our bodies in a worst-case scenario.
当你开始更多地了解这项运动的所有安全措施时，你会意识到，一些你认为是最大的风险接受者也是最不愿冒风险的人。
When you start to learn more about all the safety measures of the sport, you realize that some of the people you view as the biggest risk takers are also the people who are the most risk averse.
他们会竭尽全力确保风险不会显现，但他们也会学习在风险出现时准确知道应该做些什么的技能。
They go through great lengths to make sure that risks don’t manifest, but they also learn the skills to know exactly what to do should risks arise.
未完待续
