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What our schools seem to becoming too accustomed to...... still funny though.

Does it come equipped with any of those neat Titan missles? Imagine how many jumps those would fetch on the black market?

The above is one of the reasons that I dislike you so very much Billvon. You constantly take things out of context to "prove" your anti-christian beliefs. You are guilty of the same text that you moderate against. You are the biggest troll here. I don't feel that you should be a moderator if you cant even control yourself. I call for your resignation.

And are going to be at the Eloy boogie? I will be there from the 27th to the 4th and am looking to pop one of those on my head for a test fit. I am also looking at getting the Rawa, but I have not worn either one before. Thanks guys!

[replyI say set fire to the basement and watch it burn, then go to Mexico and complain about the drinks. God I love that movie. Err..um......my........m...m.....my....stapler........no........er.....my...stapler....

Cornhole, Yeah, I just did one over the summer. They kick ass and it was real easy. There are some that pop up questions during your required time and you have 2 minutes to answer them or you get booted off and have to start the section over. Dont get that one. Get the one that allows you to read your section and then go do shit while the clock ticks away. Good luck and watch out for Da Fuzz....

>>Umm....he is a trucker. Duh....its called pointing out the obviousness and irony here. >>By the way, Jose, I'm happy to be one of the only Reverends I know that do NOT have a holier than thou attitude. What's your excuse? Due to the fact that I am not a reverend, I do not need an excuse. The fact that you are a reverend and you don't think you do, proves that YOU ARE holier that thou. So step off it.

Ya know, I am not surprised here. Due to the fact that you seem to live in that strip club your post only strengthens the vision I have of "men of cloth". Why even put those three letters in front of your name if you conduct yourself like a trucker. Truely shaming. It seems that you are really upset about this thread being locked as it has now made your purpose of visiting those "gentlemen" clubs not for the common good. You really need to take some ridalin and find a 12 step program for the folded 1 dollar bill habit you got goin.

Jesus Christ....that has got to be the ugliest rig I have ever seen. But hey, your in the air aren't ya? Thats all that matters, but when your on the ground, damn....your fair game!

I really have to meet that ass in person, (your avatar that is). If this is perhaps YOUR ass, I will be at Eloy for some further inspection and evaluation during the DZ.com Boogie.

So I have had my rig for sale here in the classifieds for a couple of weeks now. I figured that I would give everyone here the opportunity to snag it if they wanted, and the fact that if you post here, you are serious about jumping. I got a couple of responses, but no real fish on. So, I go to the trusty ol' Ebay and list it. Nothing for the first couple of days, and then WHAM!!!!! FISH ON!!!!!!!!! Snagged my reserve price and I am a happy man! This takes the sting off all my new gear, Wings+Lotus2 136+PD143. So the moral of this story is EBAY KICKS ASS!!!!!!!!!!!

You just gave 4 examples of where you can land off in an emergency. You can land at the shoreline of a lake....even if it means getting soaked. You can land on a highway, its nice and flat usually with a grass median. Not the best place, but still a place. There must be dozens of places to land in a town. Just thinking of my own town, I can name a few that would suffice. And a railroad couldn't be more perfect. Its nice and flat, long, plenty of clearing on both sides. Trains dont run all the time like traffic does to boot. If you think about it, you can make almost any area an emergency landing out area. The trick is to know which one is the best for you at that time, and deciding on it EARLY. Waiting till the last second can injure or kill you.

Ian, There are some good comments on tracking here, and for all intesive purposes, should be read by the newbie that almost tatered you. There are a couple things that I have done to *try* to prevent this from happening to me. 1. know who will be exiting behind you on the way to altitude. Talk to them, and find out their experience level and what they plan to do on thier jump. Obviously this only applies if you really dont know the person that well. TELL THEM that they need to give you "x" number of seconds of seperation. Dont ask, but be pretty insistant about it, without coming off as an ass obviously. 2. After leaving the plane and going about your dive, track perpendicular to the flight line, or whatever the line is that the DZ specifies. I probably don't have to tell you this, but ya know. 3. At about 3500 roll to your back and check your airspace, EVERY TIME!!! EVERY EVERY EVERY JUMP! I can't tell you how dead I would be if I didn't do this. Twice now, I have had to suck it low because of an idiot that tracked right over the top of me and flared out for deployment. Once was from another group and once from my own group that got too much vertical seperation. The last time I sat there on my back waiting for that ass to deploy, all the while trying to track off on my back and keep him in sight. As soon as I saw his arm go back to dump, I rolled and dumped as well. I'm tellin ya, I was no more than 200 feet below this clown, so if I had dumped without rolling, there is no doubt in my mind that we would have collided. In the saddle at 1000 feet = pissed off Jose. Some would say that I waited too long, but hell, they wernt there to see how close it was. My life = my decision. I had video of this and showed it to the guy, and he said he "never saw me". Lesson learned here? You cannot trust anyone out there to see you, be smart, or have any common sense unless you know them really really well. And everyone screws up sometimes as well. The most important lesson here is that we are all responsible for ourselves. Obvioulsy some things are unavoidable. Even though someone tracked right over the top of you, making them dead wrong, if you dont check out whats above you with a quick barrel roll, you will be "dead" right. I'm no expert here in safety an all, but all I know is that I saw a guy do this and I have been doing it ever since. It possibly saved me once and definitely save me the other.

From the looks of the link on that site that says "Bar Girls", I think that its pretty much safe to say that if he had anything to do with this kind of activity, he wont be missed by me, nor the majority of folks. Looks like he was a pimp that used a bar as a cover.....maybe he stole some other pimps bitches. I can conjecture that the killing had nothing to do with his skydiving business, and everything to do with Pattaya. Oh well, one less slimy, scumbag teen exploiting piece of shit left in the world. If you play on the razors edge, your bound to get cut.

Why don't you and Billvon go have sex already. [quiet voice] Did I just say that? [quiet voice] *Holds up long metal rod in the middle of a field during lightning storm* Edited for spacial effect.

Heh....whats your number?

The only canopy that is in the same design class as far as I know is the Safire2 from Icarus. I have flown both and owned a Safire2 150 for a short period of time. The reason? Too many hard openings and too many 90 and 180 off headers. When the get the trim right its amazing...I had a demo that I jumped quite alot in a short time and NEVER had a bad opening....thats why I got the new Safire2. But the new canopy was a PIECE OF SHIT. I returned it when the 1 month was over after packing it 6 different ways from sunday and having others jump it as well. My guess?....quality control.

Hey Steve, Remember that Sabre2 150 I demoed at Eloy at the X-mas boogie last year? A whole day of jumping on it and I was quite happy with it, until.........WHAM!I got an opening that rivaled any other neck breaker I have ever had. I was flying camera and watched it on slo-mo many times. It gave me a neck breaking slammer with a combined 360 degree whip. I was hurtin and was surprised to see the canopy lines were all still there. My thoughts????....... it still has that name there....Sabre and no matter what, I believe that it will remind you of its ancestry. I'll stick with my Lotus thank you.

Hey Mysky....I tend to agree with the Hawkeye LS. The helmets are really padded well and feel exceptional. Mine is a large, which seems to be the size that fits most people. Heres a pic if you are interested. edited - advertising items for sale not allowed in the forums

Sweet Jesus......why cant people RESPOND to emails regarding their respective gear for sale! It irritates me so much when I reply to them about wether or not they still have the gear and if we can make a deal and I get nothing back. If you have sold it.....post that you have. If someone asks you about they item....respond, even if you do not accept thier offer. Its only plain courtesy were talking about here folks.

Dude, that many hours in a hospital can wreck you. But here's the thing......that pic looks like all the other ones that you took from your desk!!

Hey Freeflygoddess, Something for your reading pleasure. Not just a few days after my scenerio for you.....it happens, but this guy is ok. I wonder why? http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=671602;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread

I'm just pissed that I didn't see the thread before you sobered up and took off the avatar. Nipples fascinate me. I love to run my tounge around the edge of them....wheeeeeeeeeeee........

Warning to all single men: DON'T HAVE SEX WITH FREAKYFLYGIRL WHEN SHE IS DRUNK.......NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!!!!!!

Here are a couple reasons why I add a cypres to my rigs.