On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:25:47 -0700, wrote:

Iran open's World's first Muslim women's skydiving center.

From: http://www.islamonline.com/news/news...hp?newid=16548

Paaviation has recently opened the world's first Muslim skydiving
center for women.

Due to Islamic regulations, Muslim women are not permitted to jump
with male skydive instructors (they would be intimately harnessed

They don't trust them to jump alone or using a static line?
Up here they throw you out the door and two instructors jump with you.
You freeze up and one of them will pull the chute.

The thought of a tandem jump scares the crap out of me. The thought of
jumping alone never has.

together). This problem was overcome by using female instructors ( a
female student strapped to a female instructor is perfectly acceptable
under Islamic regulations) .

Roger (K8RI)