CanuckInUSA

Based on the current tension between some of the people in the ever so small BASE community, what was Felix and some of the other Red Bull sponsored BASE jumpers doing in Bean town? Of course I'm only kidding here folks. This story reeks (sp?) of more fear mongering by the media. Yes we BASE jumpers (or skydivers) are evil terrorists and the democrates better watch out as we plan on falling in on their party this week. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Happy 1st sky-birthday. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

WTF? What kind of crap is this? Do you even have the faintest idea of the cultural differences between the people of the maritimes, Quebec, southern Ontario, the rest of Ontario, the prairie provinces, Alberta, BC and the northern territories? Don't give me this crap about Canada having no culture. Travel the country, meet the people and then come back and tell me Canadians have no culture. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I am very happy with my Spectre 150 which is in my 2nd rig and is predominately used for my wingsuit jumps. It's a great all around canopy which can be used to shoot accuracy approaches as well as I can swoop it somewhere in the 200 foot range. I have yet to have a bad jump with my Spectre. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Thanks for the clarification that it is NOT based on a real event in TX. But that doesn't change that it was a disturbing movie for some of us. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Plus we as jumpers really need to come grips with our mortality. If someone hasn't accepted theirs and informed their loved ones of the possibilities, then I feel they shouldn't be jumping. I don't want to take stupid chances, but I can't ever go back to being a whuffo. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

To me just plaining out right after a 270 is enough to make me ##### ## #####. I think 250 feet is my current limit with my Crossfire2 and I have work to do with my 270s accuracy in the gates before I work on my rears. But I'm happy with my accuracy in hitting the gates on my 180s. But having the canopy plain out with no toggle input is nice and in that respect I know what you're talking about. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

You Tandem guys are crazy. You should see some of the butt slides in the thin air here in CO. Ouch-che-ca-wow-wa I say. But that said, hope your ouwie isn't too bad in the morning. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Jessica Beal (sp?) and yes she is a total hottie. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Last Saturday while swooping in the DZ's high performance landing area, I lost my ProTrack. It was in my pocket (to record the jump in the ProTrack's logbook) and I didn't know if it had fallen out in mid air or if it some how fell out of my pocket after I landed. And then thanks to being grounded due to a moderate ankle injury, I was out at the swoop course this morning to video tape a friends landing when I hear this beep ... beep. After a minute or so of searching (zoning in on the beeps) there it was in the mud. And the reason why I'm posting this message here in the gear forum is to make a comment on how tough these ProTracks appear to be. For those of you who didn't know this, metro Denver experienced some very strong torrential monsoon rain storms this week and the not only is my ProTrack functional (so I assume it has a certain water resistence to it), it also added about 150 bogus jumps to the log on Friday (during some of the worst of the rain storm which hit the area). I say bogus jumps because they would read exit altitudes of about 900-1200 feet with every 10th jump reading 14000+ feet. But I know this is my ProTrack. Not only is the face scared the way I remembered it and it was found where I suspected I might have lost it. But it also has my jumps in the ProTrack logbook which match my paper log book before I lost it. So getting hurt and going to the DZ was a good thing today. But I still can't for the life of me understand how it turned itself on on Friday when the monsoon storms hit, the fact that it recorded about 150 jumps and to top it off I only found it this morning because it was beeping ... as if to say "Hey Steve I'm over here, come rescue me". Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Watch the new one ... but just watch it once ... it's more disturbing than anything else. I didn't find it any more gory than your typical hollywood gory movie and with the exception of one surprise ... it's not over scene, I didn't find it scary at all. I just found this new movie to be very disturbing as how could people treat other humans this way. But something similar to this movie did happen in real life. Go figure? Personally I think if you have the stomach for it, this new version if worth watching. But I have no desire to ever watch it again. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Hey Argon I did take notice of your 23 years and 1500+ hours as a pilot and believe me this means a lot in terms of what we can talk to you about with flight. In fact I'm sure I have a lot to learn from you concerning flying airplanes as my experience in flying is peanuts compared to yours (I've only got 170 hours). It's just that in the last two years I've decided to put my flying on hold and to concentrate on skydiving while I'm still young enough to do it. But believe me when I first started to jump, I said "there's no way I'm going to swoop". But that was then and this is now. Rest up, heal fast and hopefully you'll be in the skies with us (especially under canopy) before you know it. Plus I have every reason to believe that you will be a good safe canopy pilot what with your years of flying experience. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I watched someone femur in while BASE jumping at the popular and legal span in Idaho a couple of months ago (as well as witnessing several other accidents which resulted in hospital trips on the same day) and it served as a real wake up call as to the dangers of jumping (BASE and skydiving). But it won't stop me from wanting to jump. It just servered as a wake up call that people can and will get hurt and/or killed doing things we like to do. If you haven't accepted your mortality and haven't let your loved ones know about the true dangers, then you shouldn't be jumping. I'm not directing this comment at you specifically, it's more of a generic comment for all of us. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Dang ... it just goes to show that most runningbacks don't have very long careers. And when does actually stay in football a long time, we need to take notice. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Years ago I watched the original Texas Chainsaw Massacure movie and didn't think much of it as I thought it was poorly done. But this weekend I watched the modern version (which was much better) and I have to say I can't ever recall watching such a disturbing movie (and I'm not one to get scared at movies). I know the movies were based on an actual event (which makes things worse). But I'm just not sure why anyone would want to buy this movie. Don't get me wrong, I think the producers, director and actors did a great job with this modern iteration. It's just that this is one sick movie and who in their right mind would want to watch it over and over again. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

0:0:0 A moderate ankle injury kept me grounded this weekend. I hope to be back jumping next weekend, but time will tell. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

How did I get myself mixed up in a debate concerning the landing flare? I mean after all I was just trying to make a comment to Argon (who started this thread) and I wanted to let him know that in high winds the normal flare is not needed and then I go on to explain one version of why this is. But instead of reading the entire content of that paragraph, Jerm decided to focus in on a specific set of words in order to try and discredit the reply, and to paint a picture of ... shit I don't know what he was trying to do? Well what's done is done and I guess I now find myself in situation I didn't ask for. But I'm sorry I choose not to look at flight in a black and white context as some of us canopy pilots actually choose to let our canopy's nature recovery arc help plain us out above the ground (instead of using our toggles) and then we use the first phase of our flair to help us deal with our horizontal glide across the ground. Ask any competent and experienced high performance canopy pilot and they will tell you that it is much better, much safer and much more efficient method to have the canopy use its natural recover arc to plain out above the ground instead of using one's toggles. Now am I wrong to manipulate some words out side of the context of the message Jerm was trying to get across to prove my point? Absolutely, I was wrong!!! For all we know, Jerm is a competent canopy pilot who is aware of the benefits of using the canopy's natural recovery arc to plain out and who knows, maybe he's actually good at doing it. Plus my arguments of the recovery arc typically just apply to high performance canopy flight. So you can see how someone can manipulate words to make someone else look bad. So if I am wrong attempting to make Jerm look bad because he's saying we use our toggles to plain out the canopy, why is it that it is okay for him to manipulate some words outside the context of the message I was trying to say to Argon? I don't know, maybe when I make another 800+ jumps, then I will see the black and white visions of flight that Jerm seems to insist on portraying to the rest of us. But I doubt it, as my experience as a licensed pilot, a skydiver and a new BASE jumper, I choose to look at flight as a dynamic entity and I choose to look outside of the box. To Argon: I'm sorry you got hurt and I'm sorry we've hiijacked your thread and not really answered all of the questions you asked. I wanted to let someone else answer your question: "After flying a downwind, left turn onto base and another left turn onto final-which was a very gently flat toggle turn-now heading into a very gusty wind is it safer to fly the canopy with some brakes or would it be prudent to allow the toggles up and try to get some forward drive? Would this forward speed be able to be converted to lift and make the final flare more effective arresting the vertical descent?" as I know there are many more knowledgable people out there and I didn't want to come across as a know it all. But personally I think you already know the answer. When flying in high winds it is best to try and generate as much forward speed as possible in order to generate enough lift close to the ground. So if your TM was in 1/2 brakes low to the ground in high winds only because he was trying to hit the peas, then he was wrong. I have zero experience flying tandem canopies, but I know with my 293 BASE canopy, I am not at all worried about being in deep brakes close to the ground in low to moderate winds as BASE canopies are designed to be able to sink it in (plus the fact that my canopy has vents which help keeps the canopy pressurized while I'm in deep brakes). But dare we do this low to the ground with your typical skydiving canopy. So in summary, let's try to remember to treat each other as we wish to be treated ourselves. Manipulating words to makes oneself look good while discrediting others has no purpose here. Peace out people ... Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

funny... when i start to flare my stop vertically but still ahve horizontal speed.. when i continue my flare that's when the horizontal speed is abated.. You know on the surface this appears to be the case. But one needs to look outside of the box to see what's really happening. Here's a quote from SkymonkeyOne (found in this thread) concerning the flare "Phase one levels the canopy out and is used to scrub off speed. Phase two stops the canopy without having it climb back up into the air higher than you can step out of.". Phase one is scrubbing off of speed (the horizontal aspect) and phase two is so that you can step down (the vertical aspect). Since we don't need to worry about scrubbing off horizontal speed in high winds, we only need to worry about flaring for the vertical aspect. Hey I didn't invent this stuff and it did sound fishy to me when I first was told about it as well. But it makes sense when you really think about it (well it does to me and I'm assuming SkymonkeyOne a PST competitor still feels this way). Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

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"I don't know how and I don't know when. But something bad is going to happen". Donald Rumsfeld as depicted by the comedian Robin Williams. For the people on the right: You've got to laugh at yourself before you can laugh at others, right? For the people on the left: How many times have you heard Rumsfeld say things like this? Robin Williams for president I say!!! But then he's too smart for the job. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Yes Slappie's grief has me a little troubled today as many of the things he mentioned about Fatcat also apply to my critter Scratchy. I would love to have a dog as they are way more interactive than cats, but I'm not home enough to warrant having one. So instead I have a cat (my loyal subject these last 14 years) and it grieves me thinking that one day I too will lose my friend. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Is there a solution to this? Or are we all doomed because of it? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

What is the root cause of the terrorism? I don't support the terrorism nor do I dispute the Jewish people's right to exist in a part of the world that they existed in thousands of years ago. But you're pretty naive if you don't understand why this terrorism exists in the first place and why the terrorism has been brought to America's back yard. Unfortunately I don't really see a solution. The Arab world increasingly is beginning to hate America and America increasingly is beginning to hate the Arab world. Has WWIII already begun? It may not resemble the two previous wars, but then again maybe it's just the evolution of war. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I don't disagree with your statements here. And while I know this will never happen, wouldn't it be nice if America (and the civilized world) was to convince Israel to give up their WMD? Israel still has a very powerful military (and they have the backing of the world's only current super power). So why do they need their WMD? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Yes I understand this is America's current foreign policy (and has been for years). But the question still remains. Why is it okay for one nation (Israel as an example) to have WMD while it is not okay for other nations? Does one nation (Israel as an example) have more rights towards protecting themselves than another nation? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over