SkyDaemon

*nix is your friend ;-) find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Kick ass avatar ;-) find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Well... there are -other- reasons... I suppose... find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

FreeBSD, and I program a lot ;-) What about yourself? find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

PMed :-) find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Steve, Interesting to hear you're doing more BASE. Say "hi" if/when you get a chance. -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Chad, Glad to hear you're okay. Stay on your toes over there mang, there's too many objects here crying your name. Best wishes to you. -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Ouch... that hurt, man. :-( Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

I remember my first daylight BASE jump, it was a fun experience, now most of them are early morning ventures to our pet rock out here. :-) find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Anything you do will have to go well with a cream pie in the face aftewards :-) Depending on your discipline a brew jump might be in order. (get some CRW dawgs together for a beer jump. ;-) Congratulations :-) find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

***This is one of those cases where BASE is really, really, a case of "Do as I Say, not as I Do." Please, don't anyone do what I did. *** I couldn't agree more. I wouldn't recommend anyone else follow the pattern I did. My mentors at the time were hesistant, skeptical yet generous and very wise at best, and insane at worst. Although I do need to extend my thanks and appreciation to them for helping follow my ambitions. They're fine individuals who assisted in achieving my goals, and for that they have my gratitude. Thanks for the A2 and E1 Tom :-) (they were both awesome!) :-) Special thanks to Dwain and Doug for A1, E2, S1, and B1 :-) find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

After my plethora of skydives (99) my jumps were: A1, (500ft) (First fixed object jump, 100th parachute jump) A1, (300ft) A2, (1700ft) A2, (1700ft) E1, (3.200ft) E2, (900ft/2000ft) S1, (155ft) B1 (180ft) (where the numbers indicate different objects). I would NOT recommend this route to anyone... be careful, ambition can kill you. "But the good news is, I don't have a personality that's prone to addiction" ;-) find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

I'm fondly reminded of one of my favorite quotes by Mr. Mark Twain: "I never let school get in the way of my education." While polling for levels of formal education one should keep in mind that "official" approvals, authorizations, and certifications are not necessarily indicative of intelligence. And to extrapolate further: intelligence is not necessarily indicative of common sense. find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

I'm one of the Portland jumpers, and I've taken a trip down the coast with BASE 350 and Guppie Skydiver #1 to the Span you're referring to. It was a fun adventure that involved a great jump in the wind and rain... unfortunately the climb out was far more epic than the jump. I lost my radio, but the gods blessed me by giving me a hammer I found sticking out of the mud. It came in handy as I used it to grab tree roots and pull myself up. :-) I'm planning a trip back to that span when the weather changes. find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Chad, Stay safe over there, drink good liquor, and don't forget how to pack. It was awesome to meet you, and I look forward to doing some jumping with you upon your return. Send me your snail mail address. Let us know if you find anything fun to jump over there. Stay in touch! -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Karen, I had LASIK a year ago, and in addition to having 10/20 vision in both eyes, it's great not to have to deal with artificial machines on my eyes anymore. This has the added advantage of being able to jump in all conditions and not risk losing the ability to see clearly. It's definitely the way to go. ;-) find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Team E-Raist will be attending. The dates are still being worked out with my travelling companions. I look forward to seeing you all there. find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

You know you're a BASE jumper when: 1.)You find yourself standing on the steel understructure of a 155ft bridge, next to a police station, in the rain and hear a cop on his radio on the sidewalk a few feet above your head. 2.) You find yourself running from the authorities after two of your fellow jumpers were caught, and on the way up one of your friends who was caught calls and says the cops confiscated their rigs, and you wonder "is he just saying this so I have to continue hiking up this hill? Was he really caught or is he just saying he was so I have to hike up this bloody hill?" 3.) You've made two jumps and someone you've never met from Northern California invites you down to jump "real" objects. And you have one of the best and most memorable experiences ever. 4.) You stand on the arm of a power tower looking like a giraffe doing a balancing act, while being constantly shocked by static electricity, and ask yourself "How did I get here?" 5.) You believe the world is completely jumpable and your lover buys you a laser for christmas so you can prove it! 6.) You go to NRGB and hear a tourist say "It's so high", you hear a skydiver say "It's so low", then you, as a BASE jumper, reiterate "It's so high." and prove it ;-) 7.) You meet and make a terrific friend in the sport, and you lose that friend to the sport. 8.) You're the last one off and you enjoy that moment of pure serenity and connection to nature and meditate, even if just for a second, about why you jump. 9.) You go to the drop zone to pack a BASE rig and have the DZO walk up to you and tell you that it'll be $15 for the BASE manifest, and consider that his way of saying "You're alright." 10.) You drag your friends out to a tower on the one year anniversary of your first jump, to find the tower is being blown to one side by the howling winds, and you and your friends climb to exit, can't hear a thing each other is saying, understand you're not worried about object strike, and upon opening with a 180 realize you can land facing the object because the winds are pushing you backwards, have a beautiful stand up landing and smile. And finally have your friends tell you that you're not in charge of manifest anymore. ;-) 11.) You get addicted to online chat, and become skilled at web based conversations, passive-aggressive arguments, childish diatribes and forget what friendship and the sport are really about. 12.) You get offline, get out into the world, and BASE jump. 13.) You jump a 180 building with a required 90 degree turn to landing, stall the canopy, crash into a tree, run down the street in full gear, jump into a car with excellent ground crew, earn your BASE number and consider the evening a success. find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Ack! And I didn't recognize more than Narcimund and William. Thanks to everyone at Kapowsin for hosting a great event. find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Your question is a good question and despite frustrations you're experiencing in receiving answer, try to distill out the worthwhile information from billvon, iflyme, and others and avoid taking the egotistical preaching from the other forum participants personally. They might actually be trying to help, even though their methods are ineffective and have side effects that might destroy your interest in ever asking questions again. If you are like most people your eyes glance over someone's post that is written with obvious condescension, you will scroll past it and feel bad. I am sad I don't have more to offer, but keep your mind spinning and use this experience to remind yourself to be better than them, when you have an answer to someone else's question. Lead by example. I talked to my master rigger awhile ago about doing an intentional cutaway. His recommendation was that I receive the appropriate belly mount reserve (tertiary), train with it on the ground so I would be prepared for an emergency in the air. We talked about the mental focus required to make the cutaway and pull the reserve, radioing up to another jumper asking them to follow the main, and letting people know what I was about to do. I recommend talking to a master rigger and jumpmaster about their recommendations for what you should do, but always remember, (as you should on every jump) that you have a lot of equipment designed to save your life, and pushing the limits increases your risk. It's your own life, and the consequences of your actions are yours. Good luck :-) find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

The IRS steals insane amounts of money from me, which goes to pay for -other- kids' educations (considering I don't have any children). I'm also stolen from to pay for other kids, medical needs, their protection, counseling, and in the case of the delinquent, I pay for their imprisonment. Since I'm 'paying' for all sorts of things for kids, does this mean I responsible parent my proxy? Think about having children before you do. Planned parenthood means more than using a condom, and as the planet becomes more overpopulated and natural resources become more scarce, global warming increases, and this 'communal playground' deteriorates, be prepared to pay your kid's way through this world, and don't demand that everyone else do it. Be ready to be responsible for your actions, and don't ask the rest of us to. find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Next attempt will be on a CR Mojo :-) I think it will go more smoothly. find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Very very close :-) My translation from Cyrillic to Roman wasn't exactly clean, but your understanding of Russ-lish is great. Chasa actually means "hour", I meant sechas which means "now". drugio=friends, I studied Russian in college for two years, and have been speaking it for 5 with, less experience writing it. Although these posts demonstrate the weakenesses time has built into my skills. It's time for me to crack open the dictionary again and review. :-) Nice signature. ;-) find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

It seems that dz.com can't read in KOI-8 encoding or the other cyrillic encodings. Ya naravitza ruzzky yazik. Ya uchilsa no v universitete b dva chasa. Ya govoril russky b pyatz let v ya neznaio kak pismil. Chechas ya slouzio russky musica i pismio menoga na drugio b russia :-) Gde tbi? find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Kirk knows about my SkyDaemon logo and gave me permission to use it. Beastie is not covered by the GPL, it is copyright Marshall Kirk McKusick 1988, and I use it with his permission. ;-) ;-) find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;