OK, we're signed up too. My daughter seems to want to pack as much as possible into her 18th birthday, so we're signed up for dawn patrol, have to be at Skydive Spaceland Atlanta at 7:30 on May 19th.
Way back when I was in college, when we still used pterodactyls to haul us aloft, i did 7 jumps, six static lines and a hop and pop. Actually the DZ where I went used Cessna 180s, modified with a top hinged door on the right side of the airplane. We'd pile one jumpmaster and three students in the 180, and head off to 2800 feet for the static line jumps. We had a belly mounted reserve, and we were instructed to guard our reserve ripcords, as an accidental deployment within the airplane could be a disaster. When it was each of our turns, the jumpmaster would attach our static line to a D ring on the airplane, after which you'd pull on the static line about 20 times to make sure it really was attached to the airplane. The pilot would start the drop run, the jumpmaster would open the door, and you'd get the command, "Sit in the door", and you wiggled out until your feet were outside the airplane. Second command was "Out on the step", where you put your left foot on the boarding step and both hands on the wing strut, at which time you were committed to jump. The final command was "Go!", which was accompanied by a tap on the leg, since at that point you couldn't hear your jumpmaster because of the wind noise. If you did it right and got a good arch, you'd be looking up at your jumpmaster looking down at you, then almost immediately your 'chute opened, at which time you'd look up to check your canopy. I always got a lovely round olive drab canopy, since they were using T-10 canopies, which were reliable enough to where the Army used them for dropping cargo.
I also remembering that the ride down was spoiled by how uncomfortable the harness was. I hope the new ones are better. Under a T-10, we were instructed to do a parachute landing fall, T-10s don't flare. For guidance, there was someone on the ground with a big arrow on a swivel instructing us which direction to steer the canopy. It was always pointing directly into the wind, a T-10 has a forward speed of about 5 mph, and the wind at altitude was usually more than that.
I also recall being there all day and getting one or two jumps. That plus the discomfort of it all convinced me to stop. Much later in life I found hang gliding, which I MUCH preferred. My daughter has been on two hang gliding tandem flights with an instructor, but that was many years ago.
