The birds are mocking me

[JohnJug 0]

So I'm sitting here in my cube (read dungeon) where there is a big window right across from me. Not only is it bad enough that it is beautifully sunny out, and about 75 degrees, but now there is a big falcoln, or eagle, a really big majestic bird, just hanging out outside the window. He has been glididng around for about 10 minutes and hasn't flapped his wings yet, just riding the thermals I guess. You think they do that just to torture us office bound skydivers? Man what I wouldn't give to be able to glide like that. Oh well, at least it is only two more days to the weekend and I will be back in the sky with him or her.
Blue skies
Bill

[Greg 0]

Birds mock me all the time. As far as Im concerned they are only little flying bags of fecees. Why is it that they get to fly everywhere they go, I bet they dont even appriciate it! I bet if they had to walk everywhere they wouldnt be singing all the time, no, no, I bet they would bitch and moan just like the rest of us!
I always laugh when I see a bird and its raining or really cold, or hot (hee hee see what you get!)
Dont get me wrong, I dont want them hurt or anything, just even the playing field a little, ya know!

[diver123 0]

Yeah, I'm with you guys...! It's torture sitting here and having to be held captive when the sun is just begging me to come out and play. Ya know what, screw it...I'm going! I'll make one for ya'll!!!
"pull high! It's lower than you think..."

[Greg 0]

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screw it...I'm going! I'll make one for ya'll!

Go man, go!! Dont let the man keep ya down!! (winks to the birds beginning to land around his desk)

[Tee 0]

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You think they do that just to torture us office bound skydivers? Man what I wouldn't give to be able to glide like that.

"The birds made me do it", says JohnJug as he BASE jumps from his building.
Tee

[JohnJug 0]

Exactly. The really sick thing is that lately I have been thinking that it would be a pretty good joke to wear some kind of concealed rig to work, then in the middle of the day just stand up and yell "I CAN'T TAKE THIS S@!T ANYMORE!!" and take a running leap out the window. Think you would get fired for that?
Blue skies and scared coworkers,
Bill

[Doasfu 0]

Umm, you know that when you start to think the birds are mocking you, maybe you've become a bit unhinged...
Unlike, say, those pilots who fly their Cessnas over my campus all day just to screw with my mind.
Dan

[froggie 0]

johnjug,
go for it! (half kidding) that would be hilarious. Its funny that we all sit inside of buildings all day, wishing we were out at the dropzone. In my first period class (read: 9am and im half asleep) I found the perfect seat. Its in the far back corner and theres a huge window right next to it. It looks out over the campus courtyard, which i might add, is big enough to land in. Ive got it all planned out. I come down over the building i sit in, glide in for a few feet, stay high enough that i avoid the two trees that sit dead center and land in the far corner of the field, inbetween 3 buildings... The field is weird shaped, almost like two squares touching corners but sitting on an angle. It would take some fanagling, but you could land it easy. Just gotta avoid the narrow center part to reach the second field.
Oh, by the way. this one bitch always nabs my seat if she gets to class before me.. lemme just say, after what i said to her like the 10th time she did that, she wont be sitting anywhere near my dream seat anymore! a girl needs something to stare longly at. :) I know if its a windy day cause i watch how peoples clothes are blown around and i watch the trees sway. .... you know youre a skydiver when.....
froggie

[Dirtsucks 0]

Froggie, I hear ya. And Dan, those pilots aren’t really screwing with your mind. They’re totally clueless. They couldn’t even comprehend opening the door and jumping out of it, I know, I used to be one (technically I still am, just not current). Just watch them and laugh and think “Look at that idiot!” I used to be totally into the whole flying thing. But I think most of us have heard the quote “If riding in an airplane is flying, than sitting in a boat is swimming.” I’ve heard lots of skydiving quotes, but that one still means the most to me. Pilots, Geez. (I’m going to get flamed by pilots,ain’t I? Oh, well.)
Josh

[Albatross 0]

You think that the brids are mocking you but they are just trying to remind you why you jump, why you push the edge with the canopy and why you freefly. Man the major reason I skydive is from this deep desire to fly like the great golen eagles that I saw when I was a kid. Then a few years agao I was playing golf (OK you can all stop laughing and no knicker jokes) and saw this huge tree with a nest and the pair of Bald Eagles that lived in it. One was lazily floating on the thermals and the other went fishing, just swooped down and plucked the fish out of the water. Damn it was beautiful. That is what I am trying to get a bit of when I skydive.
Blue Skys and Safe Landings
Albatross

[BarrettJ99 0]

I don't know what's worse but being on a ship in the military makes it difficult to jump for several months on end. The worse part of it all is that we always deploy with a helicopter and I have to work on the flight deck every time it takes off and lands (3 times a day). Now I can't drive to the dropzone and there's a perfectly good aircraft right there and my rig is in my stateroom. If that's not enough to drive anyone crazy I don't know what it. I can't take it anymore... One step closed and I'm going to jump.....
Blue skies
-T1

[skyhawk 2]

dude i say sneek on the chopper "realize" after it takes off u shouldnt be on jump cause u wouldnt want to add any more weight for the poor pilot land on the helipad then walk to the brig to await punishment :-)
FROGGIE
there is a new froggie in town have a look in photographers fourum :-)

[rob 0]

Riding the thermals would be fantastic, and paragliders do it. Anyone tried it? When I get a few spare grand...
http://www.paragliding.org/

[Pammi 0]

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Unlike, say, those pilots who fly their Cessnas over my campus all day just to screw with my mind.

Tell me about it...we live right by an airport! It's making me crazy! Wonder how much you'd have to bribe one of them to just 'drop you off' sometime....
Pammi

[Hellian 0]

Just like the old "oh stewardess. can u lemme out here? my hotel is just down there...." while at 10k feet coming in to land
Hellian

[Merrick 0]

Oh man, I'm tellin' ya!! There must be like a flight training school out there or something..... there's at least 3 different cessnas flying over our house a hundred times a day, not to mention the every once in a while glimpse of the king air. It's torture I tell ya' TORTURE!!
"Peace & Blue Skies!"
Edited by Merrick on 3/23/01 07:16 AM.

[BarrettJ99 0]

The brig might be worth it... Good idea. My next problem lies in the fact that I'm moving to Pensacola FL this summer to start flight school. Then it's a little more difficult to jump when you have to fly the plane... Maybe we can get together and have a DZ.com boogie when I get my C-130 rating?
-T1
C-30757

[skyhawk 2]

eject eject :-)

[Aviatrr 0]

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The really sick thing is that lately I have been thinking that it would be a pretty good joke to wear some kind of concealed rig to work, then in the middle of the day just stand up and yell "I CAN'T TAKE THIS S@!T ANYMORE!!" and take a running leap out the window. Think you would get fired for that?

Well, being a pilot, I know I would get fired for doing it...but you might not.. Then again, since BASE is illegal in most places, they may fire you for breaking the law at work..
Mike

[Aviatrr 0]

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And Dan, those pilots aren’t really screwing with your mind. They’re totally clueless. They couldn’t even comprehend opening the door and jumping out of it, I know, I used to be one (technically I still am, just not current).

Naw, I can't comprehend opening the door and jumping.. I want the door opened for me, DAMMIT!
Mike

[Dirtsucks 0]

Come on now, ya know I certainly wasn't talking about pilots who also skydive, just the ego-maniac (I’ve met way too many to deny the stereotype) pilots that don't know what's it's like to fly around at 12 grand and NOT be in an airplane. Don't take offense (any pilots who don't skydive and think it's crazy, please, take offense.)
Bluest of blue skies (and green grass), the ever ass-kissing, Josh.

[Aviatrr 0]

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Come on now, ya know I certainly wasn't talking about pilots who also skydive, just the ego-maniac (I’ve met way too many to deny the stereotype) pilots that don't know what's it's like to fly around at 12 grand and NOT be in an airplane. Don't take offense (any pilots who don't skydive and think it's crazy, please, take offense.)

Pilots with egos? No way.. I don't believe you.. I've never met one of those guys.. We know we're gods(while flying, anyways), but we're not ego-maniacs..
BTW, I hope you realized that my previous post (and maybe this one too) was a 99% smartass, 1% dumbass reply.. Mike

[Dirtsucks 0]

Hey, what a coinkydink! I'm 99% dumbass and 1% smartass! Guess you caught the hypocrite in me – nothing like buzzing people gridlocked on the freeway during rush hour, while flying in a Cessna waving the finger out the window yellin’ “hey, betcha wish ya had one of these!” That was soooo cool!
Groundbounds are lame - Josh