oldwomanc6 60 #26 June 20, 2012 Raise your hand if you've jumped a front mount reserve from a DC-3.Meee, tooo! My first jump was from a DC-3. It was my first airplane ride, too! lisa WSCR 594 FB 1023 CBDB 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Southern_Man 0 #27 June 20, 2012 Quote and it's just possible that more tandem pax (or their family) than non-tandem students will be thinking "lawsuit" when an accident occurs. Every cloud has a silver lining, right Andy?"What if there were no hypothetical questions?" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 2 #28 June 20, 2012 QuoteQuote and it's just possible that more tandem pax (or their family) than non-tandem students will be thinking "lawsuit" when an accident occurs. Every cloud has a silver lining, right Andy? Is this a great country, or what? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jverley 1 #29 June 20, 2012 QuoteWhats a tandem? They're the groups we have to "move down for" while comfortably riding in a very full Otter.John Arizona Hiking Trails Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,588 #30 June 20, 2012 QuoteRaise your hand if you've jumped a front mount reserve from a DC-3Me-me-me... No evidence of front-mounted in a DC3, but I've attached evidence of a Twin Beech. Wendy P.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #31 June 20, 2012 Nessasary evil. It's not like skydiving wouldn't exist without them, but they provide the profit to make the facilities a shitload nicer than they would be otherwise.quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #32 June 20, 2012 QuoteWe were all tandems once right? Not even close.quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billeisele 130 #33 June 20, 2012 good timesGive one city to the thugs so they can all live together. I vote for Chicago where they have strict gun laws. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jgoose71 0 #34 June 20, 2012 I had to vote neutral. While yes, tandums to help pay for the drop zone, when all your drop zone has is a C-182, it really fucks up your fun jumping. If the only dropzones you have ever jumped at have flown turbines, you got no idea what I'm talking about, and consider yourself lucky."There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyangel2 2 #35 June 21, 2012 Quote We were all tandems once right? You really need to think before you type. Believe it or not, there are lots and lots of us that jumped round parachutes. T-10, Paracommander, shots and 1/2, capewells........and on and on. We were jumping before you even thought about making a skydive. And on that note I want to thank those that went before me and have help developed the skydiving equipment to what it is today.May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldwomanc6 60 #36 June 21, 2012 Quote Quote We were all tandems once right? You really need to think before you type. Believe it or not, there are lots and lots of us that jumped round parachutes. T-10, Paracommander, shots and 1/2, capewells........and on and on. We were jumping before you even thought about making a skydive. And on that note I want to thank those that went before me and have help developed the skydiving equipment to what it is today. There are a lot who were jumping before Shah was born, too! Not me, I'm too young! lisa WSCR 594 FB 1023 CBDB 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyangel2 2 #37 June 21, 2012 I don't know how old Shah is, but from reading some of his post, I'm guessing he's young. So, I just might be in that group that was jumping before he was born.May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldwomanc6 60 #38 June 21, 2012 Quote Quote When I get out of the aircraft, I hit an tremendous sense of calm knowing I am completely in charge of my destiny. You obviously jump with a better group than I do. The base says "Ready, Set, Go" and then we start the blender . . . Or to quote Julie Brown: "Oh how do I describe it. Well you know how a blender has 12 speeds? Well when he got up to puree I thought I would die. But when he put it on liquefy, I wanted his baby. There's no ride like this at Disneyland, baby. Oh synchronize, synchronize, I'm docking Ohhhhhhh. And to think we did all that without even touching. " Not a song about skydiving, but oddly appropriate. lisa WSCR 594 FB 1023 CBDB 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #39 June 21, 2012 Quote Quote Raise your hand if you've jumped a front mount reserve from a DC-3 Me-me-me... No evidence of front-mounted in a DC3, but I've attached evidence of a Twin Beech. What's a pretty girl like you doing with all them dirty hippies? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #40 June 21, 2012 Quote Or to quote Julie Brown: We've got that movie and had that cassette. Vskydiver's theme song was "Cause I'm Blonde". Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #41 June 21, 2012 Quote good times - they were indeed! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #42 June 21, 2012 Quote Quote We were all tandems once right? You really need to think before you type. Believe it or not, there are lots and lots of us that jumped round parachutes. T-10, Paracommander, shots and 1/2, capewells........and on and on. We were jumping before you even thought about making a skydive. And on that note I want to thank those that went before me and have help developed the skydiving equipment to what it is today. There are also lots and lots of us who started on squares but never did a tandem. Prefering either Static line progression or AFF (and equivalents)You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nigel99 616 #43 June 21, 2012 It depends how you define sport. Yes equipment, access and understanding has grown with tandems. Although funnily it still isn't mainstream enough for insurance policies to still hold us at arms length. But I feel the close knit, club atmosphere has been lost. I have fond memories of kicking a hackey sack around waiting for a load to turn in a crappy old aircraft. 20 years on I still have friends from my first club. The dz was a club and strong friendships grew. Personally I'm still very happy to jump into a 182 (in fact my last few jumps have all been 182's). Finally - I'm in the DC3 belly reserve club (jump number 62) Turbo Dak and a C9 Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shah269 0 #44 June 21, 2012 WOW you guys had guts to jump those things back then! WOW! "We were all tandems once" implies we were all students once. Heck I'm still a student and hope to be for as long as I can enjoy the sport.Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jackwallace 3 #45 June 21, 2012 The good stuff: better, safer aircraft. People making a living doing something they love. Putting their kids through college and paying mortgages. Bad stuff; Boogies are almost gone, to many big planes available. A lot of the fun and grass roots experimentation is gone. I can raise my hand; 170, 180, 182, 185, 190, 196, D18, Howard, DC 3, C47, C46, Otter, hot air balloon (landed in the only town in America that has a specific law outlawing sky diving.) And I may be the only guy to jump a chest mount turned up and down, instead of side to side.U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Krip 2 #46 June 21, 2012 Hi #2 Quote We were all tandems once right? Quote No One Jump Wonder Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 2 #47 June 21, 2012 Quotegrass roots experimentation is gone. Are you referring to gear standardization (away from the "Borrowed gear kills" days)? If so, how does that correlate to tandems in particular? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
