Yes (in case you’re looking closely at my face) I screamed. Wouldn’t you?
See the little blue blob above my head? That’s the pilot chute which the instructor releases while you exit the plane. It automatically ejects your main chute.
In case you’ve come late to this party, and don’t know anything about how exciting my life was for that brief period of time, you can see the video here, or read about it here.
And now we go back to our regularly scheduled programming of soccer games, boring days at the office, endless loads of laundry, groggy midnight puke-cleaning-up duties, and all those other riveting moments in my life.