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It's not really the same thing, is it? Ice rinks are designed for tens of thousands of people to drink beer and eat hot dogs (or the Canuck variant) while watching a game or a concert. The reason the venue exists is for the performers. C-130s are military transport planes. Their purpose was not to assist skydivers, but they accommodated your team's needs voluntarily. And there are practical reasons for not wanting loose alcoholic beverages on board, which in the hands of drunks are more likely to be spilled. If the focus was on the smoking, fine, but it's really this assertion that these damn women should be controlling themselves. This thread has really taken a shit, it has zero to so with: - Hockey - C-30's - Thailanders - skydiving - Canada It has to do with a world organization called the olympics and the rules. The venue is irrelevant as well as the sport. WHat matters is a universal set of rules that are followed regardless of sport, nationality or degree of hapiness/sadness/anger/glee. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Let's just be glad this happened in a country where the winners can celebrate, as opposed to one where the losers might get shot on the streets. Sounds to me like you;re jealous.. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

If a 4-way team with 20 year olds on it won a Nationals intermediate competition, and they all grabbed champagne and beer and ran into the landing area to start celebrating, they might be perfectly justified in doing that. Still, most teams seem to have enough class to save that for later. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You must play in a different league then I do.... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

2. All workings with employees is considered confidential. While there are board members with information, they cannot share confidential employee information, and they haven't with me either. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bull, see above. During the last election we were told by several candidates that this secret squirrel crap was going to end and that USPA would be above board and open with it's membership. So far those promises have not been kept. (I know you were seated on the board the same way I was so I am not directing this towards you) As a board member I knew exactly what we were paying the new executive director because I was involved in the selection process but I was not allowed to know what someone working underneath the ED was paid. Why not? What are they hiding? _______________________________________________ Should at least be able to get a salary range, if not an exact figure. But I'll bet you'd need to get a lawyer involved, and it would probably take a while to get and lots of money. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

In 1988 when the canadian curlers realized they'd won the right to compete in the Calgary Olympics, and the government was giving them a whole bunch of money for training, they went to a strip club to celebrate. Before they left, they'd hired on of the strippers as a coach and flew her to the Games on the gov't tab.... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

I thought I was going to read this thread, but now I really don't care anymore! If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Seems to me there's different varieties of hemp plants, and the ones grown for fibers (cloth, etc.) or oils for cooking, have lower thc content than the ones I used to grow at university. Incidently, there is a hemp farm (legitimate one) down the road from me. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

QuoteBefore that, John Charter(not sure of spelling). Jumped from a chopper, landed on the top of the Verazzano Narrows bridge tower chopped his main and used his reserve. I had jumped the world trade center 9/13/80. And on12/7/80 climbed inside the tower of the bridge and jumped from the top, landed on Staten Island. Later at LSPC he asked all about the top of the tower so he could do his jump. Don't know when but he died on a base jump a few years later. ________________________________________________ That was John Carta, I believe. Actually, he was killed as a passenger in an airplane doing aerobatics at an airshow somewhere in cali.... His death was mentioned in Skydiving Magazine. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

I seem to remember there was a guy in cali who hit a military transport plane in freefall, and his suit was torn off. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Who was the student? Who was the "other experienced jumper"? What was the "harness hold" training protocol? Was it like AFF? Does anyone know if the student had an AAD? Sentinel 2000s were in use at that time. Would Mike have been right next to the student at deployment time? Would Mike have fallen below the student if the student had a high speed malfunction? I am trying to figure out relative vertical positions during the emergency. Any idea why after saving the student Mike went for his main rather than reserve at such a low altitude? Was this a bandit training operation? __________________________________________________ My impression at the time was that certainly this was a bandit training operation. There was no secondary instructor on the jump, it was a 1 on 1 sort of take=off of a later level aff jump. aff at the time was just becoming a well-defined program and there were many bastardized one-offs and hybrid programs around, many where one instructor just left with the student and held on till deployment. My impression was that Mike never lost his grip on the student, (possibly they went unstable as the student reached in to pull,) which caused some sort of a hangup, which Steele corrected by pulling the single release handle, saving the student. \ \Students were supposed to have aads at the time, but since this was a bandit operation, who knows. If they were tumbling, probably wouldn't think of letting the aad fire the reserve. Most people at the time would fire their main out of habit, no matter the altitude -- wouldn't have made a difference that low anyways.... The other experienced jumper was probably there to do ground control for the student.... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

I wish there was a way to get some of the knowledge and the feelings and experiences out of these guys and save it somewhere so people would be able to know what it was like in the old days. Not enuf of this stuff gets recorded.... So many people I would have loved to talk with.... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

The one you refer to as "Wim from Holland" that would be me, from Belgium actually, but I am not on that dive but you got the girlfriend right, Mag was my girlfriend in those days. ________________________________________________ Sorry, I should have checked your profile before I replied. I actually debated Holland or Belgium before I posted, but got it wrong. I should have dug out my logbook, but I was just going from memory. Without looking it up I'm not even totally sure about the year, I would guess 1981/82 Xmas boogie. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

just happened to look at pic 22. Heidi's (or is it Joannie, I don't remember) in the blue, across the base is Larry MacKinnon of Mississauga, the brown suit in the base is Paul Dow, wearing a student innovator rig from SWOOP. I'm on Larry's right leg in a dirty white suit with a red stripe, beside me in blue is Mike Dewit. On Heidi's right leg is Paul 'Anvil' Evanoff and on her left is Gerry Lambert from Queebek, Beside Anvil might be Wim from Holland? and his girlfriend on Paul Dow's other leg? If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

On a test jump on the system last week we had the fxc on the main set for 3000'. I pulled around 4500', and after I had landed it was discovered that the fxc had fired, even tho' I pulled over 1000 ft above it's set altitude.... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

and crw has changed to cfs -- or canopy formation skydiving.... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

I heard from another teammate that AFTER Mike left the Team, that he had ALLEGEDLY gotten banned by USPA for jumping off El Capitan. Ok, that was sorta what I remembered. I wonder if jeannie mccombs was also banned for that? If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

I'm graduating from Texas Tech University in May with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology with a minor in Substance Abuse Studies You mean you were paying money to study drugs -- gee, I been studying drugs for all these years on my own, gratis! If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Hell, in the 80's Parachute School of Toronto in Arthur Ontario would get 70+ students/day on weekends during the summer. Some weekends they would train 200 static-line jumpers! These are really not that unusual numbers even up here -- there are several dz's in Canada that would do 2000-3000 students/year.... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

It wasn't cliff-jumping. I just remember that he wasn't a member at the time, maybe it was even that he hadn't renewed -- Robin might remember more about it since he probably wrote the report for skydiving magazine -- but I also remember like I said that there were a few people went in around that time who were not members of uspa. I noticed Mike's death at the time because I was becoming involved in the pff program here and it was one of a few deaths on aff-type jumps around that era. I also believe it was either a non-uspa dz or even a private deal going on away from a dropzone at all. I believe Mike may have done well at the us nationals in style and accuracy, if not won. Probably even searchable on the uspa website, but I'm on dialup, so I won't try. pdf's are a bitch to open. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

The two that pissed me off were that Russell Crow's Gladiator was a copy of the Fall of the Roman Empire -- I think they used the same script in places, for god's sake. Yet everyone goes on about how great Gladiator was, never mentioning the first movie.... It was nothing special.... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Strong, UTP or uspa? If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

I heard there was a lot of torn butts all around there.... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Interestingly, tod1 also appears in the book Nine Lives: the story of the parachutist John Tranum, opposite page 134. Most of the pictures have some sort of assignation as to where they came from, but that one does not. Tranum was Danish and spent the last few years of his life in Europe. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

I'm guessing that this would be the first power line landing -- Grant Morton, Venice Beach California, 1912. The second jumper ever out of an airplane. But there could have been balloon jumpers who landed in wires, too. I know a jumper in London Ontario in the 1890's landed on rooftop and broke her back.... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

I hesitate to bring this up because it might not be true, but wasn't Mike one of those people kicked out of uspa right around that time for various infractions. Seems to me there were a few who were kicked out and died within a year or so. At the chance of upsetting some people I'm thinking jeannie mccombs was another.... might have been for doing aff=type jumps without a rating? If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

If memory serves, Mike was doing an aff-type jump and dumped the student low and bounced himself back in the early '80's, but that's just my recollection. I believe there was a write-up both in the fatality reports in parachutist and also in Skydiving magazine.... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone